Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Highness or Prince, call me Honorable Comrade." Sihanouk called his new policy the Pancha Shila, or the five principles of purification. He borrowed the words from Nehru, but Sihanouk's five principles are: no official cars, no government housing, no titles, no fancy uniforms, no sojourning at les lieux de plaisirs (entertainment places...
Dave Silbert was the only varsity sabreman to win two matches in a 6-3 defeat. Les Zukerman, one of the few lefties that the Crimson has faced, took three matches for the Elis. This second consecutive loss for the slumping sabre team dims the outlook for the division in the Intercollegiates this weekend...
...strong Yale squad to enable the varsity to win. It started the season poorly, winning few matches, but last week the group came to life and won 5 to 4. Bill Pierskalla regained his last season from and Doug Fitchen returned to the team to lead the victory. Les Zuzerman will lead the Eli's veteran epee team...
Other versions are even farther away from the original. Les Paul (Capitol) gives it a zithery sound, Tito Puente (Victor) a Latin beat, and Billy Vaughan (Dot) features an off-key whistler. But most versions retain the original's deliberately poverty-stricken melody-five of its eight phrases end on the same querulous note...
Died. Mistinguett, nee Jeanne Bourgeois, 82, French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music hall of her time. The peak of her long career came early in the century when she played at the Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with...