Word: loos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worthy Pupil. Korea was first on the agenda, but not first in the hearts of the delegates. The South Korean delegate proposed Syngman Rhee's plan for supervised elections, to be held in North Korea only, for the loo-odd seats kept vacant in the Republic of Korea assembly. North Korea just as predictably demanded, among other things, withdrawal of all foreign troops. As Dulles rose to endorse South Korea's plan, Chou scribbled notes, asked to speak as soon as Dulles sat down...
...Lord Raglan, commander in chief in the Crimea at the age of 65, had never led troops into battle in his life. Lord Raglan's personal courage was first class. "After his right arm was amputated without an anesthetic on the field of Water loo, he called out. 'Here, don't take that arm away until I have taken the ring off the finger!' " Unfortunately, he "covered his [Crimean] staff with confusion by forgetting that the French were ... his allies and invariably talking of 'the French' when he meant 'the enemy...
...This week Cramer had a chance of winning the "comfort" competition with a couple of in genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2) an ultraviolet searchlight on his car's roof, which, Cramer believes, helps neutralize the glare of oncoming headlights...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...
...Police issued two appeals to the public to turn back the money. The sandwich man and two others turned up, each with a thousand-franc note. The rest of the beneficiaries apparently agreed with Dreamer Formartin that their need was greater than that of Messrs. A. Freyman & Van Loo...