Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President (his old army pal, General Gabriel Paris) with a whole new Cabinet for the Saturday-to-Monday absence, and, as a final precaution, ordered all Bogota bars and taverns closed while he was away...
...leaves so firmly in place that they sin only in their minds. To a love affair which proves to be as innocuous as Pablum, Author Shapiro adds some government-issue characters from the standard stockpile of all war novels. There is the hero's uncouth, hell-for-leather pal who "buys it" on Dday. There is the bullet-spitting ex-auto salesman, bucking for general, who comes drunkenly apart at the seams once he gets a briefing on the German fortifications in his attack sector. There are camp followers, goldbricks and, for a touch of sentimental local color from...
...getting a $60 million loan this year. Whatever happened, the 8:25 news program dedicated to Eva went back on the air, and Perón's portraits went back on the walls. Lucero began to look less like a new strongman and more like an old pal...
...eighth annual Democrat-Republican baseball game in Washington. New Jersey's rippling (350 Ibs.) Democratic Representative T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty frisked through some horseplay with his teammate and close congressional pal, California's James Roosevelt, leftfielder. Bellowed Tumulty: "When I get up, I'll have to hit a home run because I sure could never run out a hit to first base!" When one-inning Third Baseman Tumulty came to bat, a pinch runner was ready to do his legwork for him, but hurly-burly "T.J." hit only a short dribbler, was thrown out at first...
...Crockett is filled with engaging human imperfections : he loses his first hand-to-hand battle with the Indian chief, Red Stick, and only succeeds in overcoming villainous Mike Mazurki by biting his opponent's thumb. There are some stereotypes-Buddy Ebsen has the familiar role of the trusty pal, and Hans Conreid plays a cowardly gambler with synthetic W. C. Fields flourishes. But, all in all, Davy makes his giant-sized legend come as truly alive as that of Mike Fink, the river boatman, or Paul Bunyan, the peerless woodsman of the Northwest...