Word: password
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathering places across the U.S. they recognize each other when they hear such terms as "bahli-bahli" ("hurry up"), or "no sweat." Their password is a mangled version of Arirang, the Korean folksong taught them on a quiet night by ROK soldiers in the bunkers. The badge of their fraternity is the fatalism by which they say, when things go wrong: "That's the way the ball bounces...
...Francisco, some teen-agers dye their hair green. Others pencil their eyebrows in red, paint cat's whiskers on their faces, wear purple lipstick. Their hats are trimmed with swizzle sticks, foxtails and pipe cleaners. Shouting the password "Zorch!" (fuzz-beard lingo for Hollywood's "colossal!"), they storm into a radio studio in the Palace Hotel five nights a week to pay homage to a bop-talking disk jockey named Richard Bogardus Blanchard. In five months "Red" Blanchard, 33, has zoomed from a routine job as staff announcer at station KCBS to a position that his pressagents describe...
Democrats in Denver all acted as if he would. Confidence was their password; no matter what happened they seemed certain that the Republicans would bail them out by making mistakes...
...with fearless frankness and individualism, the Black Watch had small respect for top-brass rulings that offended their habits and sense of custom. "Halt, wha's that?" snapped a sentry one night. "Come, come," said the approaching officer, "that's no way to challenge. Ask me the password." "This is nae time for your bloody kiddin'," snapped the sentry. "Whit's your bloody name...
...sport shirts and pressed linens, old men in soiled shorts and wide straw hats, nearly all of them with poverty in their faces-listen with silent intentness. After the speeches there are questions. Gonzales Guilas, a gaunt, tall man who is the lieutenant of his barrio, suggests a nightly password-else how will they be able to tell patrolling soldiers from "New Faces?" The major dodges this...