Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pan, Clavell...
...mental picture is called up of some pukka sahib in a pith helmet kicking a coolie. In its context the sense of the line is almost the exact opposite of this. The phrase 'lesser breeds' refers almost certainly to the Germans, and especially the pan-German writers, who are 'without the Law' in the sense of being lawless, not in the sense of being powerless. The whole poem is a denunciation of power politics...
...based airlines that were still flying-notably American and Pan Am -were having their own troubles. Though they have done all they can to pick up strike-caused traffic, they are embarrassed by the fact that many potential passengers call their ticket offices, get busy signals, and assuming that the situation is hopeless, give up. American, which has had some flights depart with unfilled seats, ran ads last week trying to smooth over the situation. "Come out to the American terminal at the airport," the ads urged. "If the flight you want is all booked up, there...
...proper Arab girls did not then perform in public-Um Kalthoum as a child often sang Koranic songs for five or ten hours at a stretch. Her pay: 1$ per performance. At 15, she bought her first dress, later switched from religious to romantic songs, and instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators of the Dam. When, in 1953, a black-bordered box in Egyptian newspapers reported that...
...Boeing Co. is still based in Seattle, and last week the city carried on with a golden anniversary celebration for its leading corporate citizen. Among those present was Pan Am's Chairman Juan Trippe, 67, and it was he who perhaps put the Boeing Co. into its best historical perspective. Trippe recalled that as early as 1934 Boeing had drawn up plans for a four-engined bomber; the U.S. War Department turned it down as being too visionary. Boeing thereupon spent $275,000 of its own money to build the plane. During World War II, it became the famed...