Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconds before 10 p.m., a crop-haired battalion commander took a soggy cigar from his mouth, flicked a switch, and called his companies: "Thanks for sticking out the war. You'll be all right now if you don't step on a mine on the way back." At the ist Marine Division, a bugler played taps. Despite the sober warnings, men dashed from their bunkers, shed their flak jackets, then stood around in little groups, talking, in a no man's land that was suddenly safe...
...Stranger in Town (Mel Tormé; Capitol). The "velvet fog" is back with a lonely mood number that combines the story of That Old Gang of Mine with some of the feeling of One for My Baby...
Mossadegh himself scoffs at charges that his ineffective regime is leading Iran towards Communism. He leans back in his pink-painted iron cot and points to his two air conditioners, one British, one American. "Could anyone with a car and air coolers and a good bed like mine be a Communist?" he asks...
...Freedom from Enemies: "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies...
Between Friends. In Houston, William D. Thomas, hospitalized after a fight in which he suffered two black eyes and a broken leg, was asked if he wanted to prefer charges against his assailant, told police: "No, he's a friend of mine...