Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doggedly the nationalists started all over again, this time on the principle that "if the French come against us with a hammer, we will become mosquitoes." Instead of a single large army, they concentrated on building small, highly trained cadres. As the nucleus of the F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) took shape, Mohammed ben Bella, a former French army noncom with a brilliant World War II combat record, negotiated promises of aid from Egypt. Then at i a.m. of All Saints' Day, 1954, simultaneously across Algeria, 30 F.L.N. bands struck. The Algerian war had begun...
...guerre for World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a half ago when his call-up separated him from his wife, his three children, and a well-paid bank job in Paris. But the massacre of 302 Moslem villagers by the rebel Front de Libération Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed his mind. As the first French officer to arrive at Kasba Mechta after the massacre, Olivier Dubos was so deeply shocked by what he saw that he wrote his family: "I must stick...
Most of the time, Paar is merely a good listener with a knack of asking the right questions. He may be as fast on the ad-lib draw as the next gag-toting desperado, but again and again he lets himself be "topped." He is all the world's straight man. And yet, Paar can hit. A caustic remark, a misconstrued question, a real or fancied attack in or out of the studio can provoke stinging repartee. When Winchell attacked him for a misstatement made by Elsa Maxwell on the show, Paar counterpunched fiercely, guessed-on the air-that...
...regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
...raids which ultimately ballooned into the Algerian revolt. Of the nine original moujahids (freedom fighters), three are now dead and five are in French prisons. The only one still at large is Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...