Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alcock and Brown, who flew the Atlantic nonstop eight years before Lindbergh's flight, I am baffled by what goes into the fabrication of American folklore. Would you resent the observation that Lindbergh was at least the 64th person to cross the Atlantic...
...derisively scorned by Administration critics when applied to Asia. "Aqaba is the test from which the Arab nations, and behind them all the nations of Asia and Africa, will take their cue," she wrote. "If we fail to act to confirm the principle of freedom of navigation, every person in every one of these countries will take note...
Still, the simple dignity of the man and the grandeur of his lonely conquest of the sea managed to survive all the hucksterism. "I have no interest in meeting a better class of person than the friends I already have," said Chichester. "I still much prefer to be appreciated by the connoisseurs." The admirers include Queen Elizabeth II, who will formally confer knighthood on Sir Francis next week in an unusual out-of-palace ceremony at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. She will use the same sword presented by Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Drake after he brought home...
Reason to Hail, in his seventh tough stakes in two months, will try hard, as always, and will wind up fourth, as always. If he were a person he would go on strike. Nehoc's Bullet's only claim to fame is that he is Damascus's half-brother. Proviso's record is intriguingly mediocre. Blasting Charge and Gaylord's Feather ran one, two in a nice route on the grass against older horses last week, but that hardly qualifies them to win the country's toughest three-year-old race...
...dead" or otherwise they and all their children after them will not be able to "raise their heads" (khong co the cat dau cat eo noi) which means that they will not be able to get anything anywhere in life. In fact, in the past, the destruction of another person's ancestral grave-yard was a capital crime. Now the one insult the Vietnamese find it hard to tolerate is any slighting remark to their parents and ancestors. Thus it is not strange that many would fight till death because of this...