Word: ne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaughter went on day after day in Algeria. At Oran, Europeans machine-gunned a grocery, killing three Moslems; retaliating, Moslems ambushed a car, killing four Europeans. In Bōne, Europeans placed flowers at the spot where a 16-year-old boy had been killed while putting up S.A.O. posters. As the week's toll climbed from 20 to 30 to 40, the authorities advanced the curfew from 9 o'clock to 7, rushed police and troop reinforcements to Algiers. French police claimed to have arrested 106 European "extremists," including five "killers." A police raid on a villa...
...prime example. Born in Kreminiecz, Russia, but taken to San Francisco by his parents before he was a year old, he studied with the San Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut discipline of a scholarly musical mind...
Short of Murder. No show business professional was in the least surprised that Sophia should consider the matter important enough to bring before the Supreme Court of the State of New York. As Broadway Pressagent Richard Maney summarizes the whole matter in his book Fanfare: "Billing is the ne plus ultra, the be-all and end-all of the theater's children. To achieve it they will sacrifice their young, slash their salaries, forage for food and sleep in the subway. To maintain or enhance it, they'll stop at nothing short of murder...
Last week the harried flics finally struck back. Detectives found a cool million dollars worth of hot ice stashed away in the Antibes apartment of a young (25) schoolmarm named Hélène Chambovet, who explained delicately that "my friend Sacha told me to keep them for him." Sacha. arrested in a dawn raid on a Paris apartment, turned out to be Nicolai Gontscharow, 31, a handsome, suave, international cat man known on the Riviera as "le beau Sacha." Caught trying to sneak out a window (with a suitcase containing $10,000 in cash), Sacha claimed...
...Algerian seaport of Bōne, F.L.N. terrorists tossed a grenade into a hotel, killing a guest, and in revenge a European mob surged through the streets and lynched the first two Moslems it encountered. In Oran. Sidi-bel-Abbés and Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic bombs. At the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations lined up 46 of the 50 nations needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Tunisia's charge of French aggression at Bizerte. Boatloads of thousands of penniless French refugees, fleeing the possibility of renewed war in Tunisia...