Word: loos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither his wife nor his son nor his employers knew what dreams whirled in the head of Maxime Formartin. Perhaps-unlike Thurber's elaborately dreaming Walter Mitty-Maxime himself did know. He was a lowly handyman, chauffeur and clerk for the firm of A. Freyman & Van Loo, Antwerp shippers. Long years of faithful service had brought him one occasional pleasure and privilege: going to the bank to draw some of the firm's money for import duties...
...Dick Cleveland's winning sprint in the 50-yd. free style in 0:22.3, two-tenths off the American record, and his second place in the 100, behind Michigan's defending champion, Clark Scholes. Cleveland, another Hawaiian who swims for Ohio State, "will win the Olympic loo-meter this summer," according to enthusiastic Mike Peppe, Ohio State and Olympic coach...
...have set up infantry positions, emplaced artillery, and deployed tanks. At 7:20, the 6-295 slid into formation and swept over the target. A blinding, dome-shaped flash lit up the sky; the familiar, mushroom-topped cloud shot up to 20,000 feet. Three hours later, a loo-mile-long radioactive cloud was still trailing across the horizon...
...Early Arrivals. For their own men, the Reds evidently expected a rough, slow trip over the loo-mile road from Pyongyang to Kaesong. The road was muddy, and cratered from innumerable allied air attacks, and it had been bountifully strewn with "tetrahedrons"-devilish little four-pointed gadgets of cast iron which always keep one sharp point up, no matter how they fall, to puncture tires.* Obviously eager to be the first on the scene, the Communists announced that they proposed to leave Pyongyang the day before the Kaesong meeting in a convoy of five jeeps and five trucks bearing white...
...orders to ministers, governors and Congressmen, patches up party squabbles, runs her own Peronista women's party (a potential 4,000,000 new votes), bosses the C.G.T., receives workers' delegations, inaugurates public institutions, and-three times a week at the Labor Ministry-dishes out sympathy, advice and loo-peso notes to the poor...