Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers & sailors are bored, homesick, frustrated by language difficulties. They resent the fact that many Chinese have marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
...critics, please everybody. Then you lose weight and they don't like you. What you do? You get bugs in the head." Milanov used to weigh over 200 Ibs., but has lost 50 of them, largely by daily rides on an electric bicycle in her apartment overlooking Central Park. She still eats as many steaks as she can find, and cooks two hearty Yugoslav dishes - sarma (stuffed cabbage) and burek (meat and onion, wrapped in thin dough). Says she: "To look at me I still have plenty of flesh." When she made her debut in Yugoslavia...
...scores of Broadway's Oklahoma!, On the Town, Up in Central Park and Song of Norway...
Today, at 38, he is still lean, balding, a little on the gaunt side. He works long hours, is tired when he gets home to his suite at the Park Lane, and to his trim-figured, brunette second wife, Lorelle, 33. Their living room has an impressive assortment of drawings and photographs of Lorelle, accumulated in their twelve years of married life...
...Some or all schools were closed in Chicago, nearby Melrose Park, Kankakee (Ill.), Tuckahoe (N.Y.), many Ohio towns. Radford...