Word: macs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called An Fear a Phōs Balbhan (The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife), a one-act farce adapted from Rabelais by Librettist Tomás Mac Anna. In a surrealistic setting showing both the inside and outside of a peasant's cottage, the hero hires a doctor to cure his speechless wife. The doctor does this by telling her of her husband's carryings-on with other women. When she finally speaks, she does it so abusively that the hero asks to be made deaf, and the curtain falls as he peacefully sings that deafness...
...most famous field bosses, James MacPherson, 62, as he hunted for oil ashore. At a cost of $30 million, MacPherson's long-futile quest became the most expensive in Middle East history. After five dry holes, oilmen all over the Middle East joked: "Four more holes will give Mac a nine-hole golf course." From Cairo to Dhahran, their stock greeting became: "Mac, struck anything yet?" The answer was always...
...pluck a few oranges from groves that had been taken from them, or to liberate a few cattle or some lengths of irrigation pipe from the Israeli side. The Israelis raid back in force to shoot up the Arabs. Local commanders sometimes smooth over incidents; other times the MAC has to move in for an investigation, then fitful peace returns...
...attacks since the war's end. Ten Arabs were wounded and the village muktar (headman) killed. In violation of the armistice, the Israelis then began sending warplanes over Jordan, followed a few days later with the seizure of a vacated Arab college in no man's land. MAC officers who tried to investigate were obstructed by the Israelis...
...witty and everyone kidded it back ("Hey, Mac, are you coming or going?"). It also sold so well that Studebaker's per-share earnings ($8.12) compared favorably with General Motors' and Chrysler's. Buoyed by this success, Loewy later surprised Vance with another specimen of his wit: a quarter-size model of a sports car which eventually turned out to be the 1953 Studebaker. Vance was fascinated, spent hours inspecting the model and suggesting changes. The big decision was made to go into production of the car for 1953-still three years away. It was little enough...