Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sing beautifully. "Fourteen-carat gold in my mouth, silk upon my back." Listen...
...been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence against you North Korean Communists is overwhelming, and I am in no mood to listen to an obfuscating smoke screen." Pak, in turn, scored Lyndon Johnson as a "war maniac" and added: "They are burning Johnson's effigies today, but tomorrow they will burn Johnson alive." His rhetoric was a match for Pyongyang radio, which described how North Korean attacks had "left the U.S. imperialists...
First off, she took to the streets, distributing cards printed with her name and hotel address to every policeman she saw. She also made a tour of precinct stations, explaining to all who would listen that she would pay $10 to $15 for each cape delivered to her hotel. When she caught wind of an anti-American rally outside the U.S. embassy, she sensed a windfall. She raced to the scene, handed out her cards-and by evening some 50 flics had marched into the hotel, capes in hand. The concierge collaborated willingly. "Whenever I was out and another batch...
...first thing of consequence I did before leaving Saigon for Da Lat, the central highlands, and language training was stop at the USO. GI's coming straight in from an 'operation' could check weapons and get showers, hamburgers, real milk and listen to rock'n'roll there. Huge galvanized buckets of anonymously addressed letters in geographical arrangement stand around for anyone to go through (nobody does). The letters come from school children and little old ladies usually and aren't the type soldiers are eager for. There are stacks of old magazines, junky concession stands, and a "boutique' selling...
...consequently it sees little of the fighting. Saigon politicos and generals use it for their R & R and there are serious reports that VC higher-ups vacation here too. The unnatural quiet of this place almost becomes repugnant--all you have to do is read the Saigon Post or listen to the radio to know that Da Lat is leading a charmed life. IVS hired an excellent old gentleman to tutor us for six and a half hours a day, a Mr. Thanh, Paris-educated and clothed in a French suit, beret and scarf...