Word: neighs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose principal exports is the steely little Gurkha soldier, Mahendra labors not only to hold his throne but also to keep his little kingdom from the jaws of its giant neighbors, Red China and India. He does this so successfully that, far from becoming a tasty morsel for its neigh bors, Nepal has wheedled all manner of goodies from both- not to mention the U.S. and Russia...
Dirk Bogarde was 44 last week. He is a bachelor, and lives a most unpublic life. He has a stately manor house on 16 acres in Surrey½ hour commute from London. Owls hoot in the woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...
...Sundays, when adult Episcopalians in the Honolulu suburb of Aina Haina arrive for services at Holy Nativity Church, their teen-age children are not among them. The kids have their own church to worship in: the neigh boring, virtually autonomous church of Halepule Opio, where the congregation of 180, plus all of the lay readers, ushers, acolytes and wardens, are youths ranging in age from 12 to 18. Normally the only adult present is the church's minister, the Rev. Fred Minuth, 41, a curate of Holy Nativity...
...course, she gets her killer. What's more, she almost gets Robert Morley, a member of the local hunt who admires her seat and suggests that she "keep her saddle" at his house. The heroine says neigh, and at the fade, after calmly collaring a maniac with a homicidal hatpin, she prissily explains why she cannot marry him: "My dear man, I do not approve of blood sports...
...meaningful--or rather, each means far to much. The first approach, for example, can lead directly to the authorization of certain military aid programs whose well-publicized results are to encourage powerful military elites or rulers in some countries (like Pakistan or Argentina) and to offend other governments in neigh-boring countries (like Afghanistan or Thailand). It can also lead to Congressional veto of funds whose usefulness in the immediate bipolar cause is hardly obvious. The second approach has the advantage of subtly prodding the guilt-consciousness of Representatives or their constituents. But the Congress has sufficient sophistication to realize...