Word: pipering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Britain was strong, the monarchies were safe. Now that European nations no longer pay the piper in the Middle East, the monarchs have been able to survive only on two conditions: 1) that their personally loyal armies keep order and discipline in lands where disorder is routine; 2) that the rulers show themselves willing and able to exact concessions from the colonial powers...
...Elinor Glyn's It, dance the Charleston, and indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic assort ment of sheiks and shebas...
...Tobacco Co. (Camels), into paying for his lessons. By 16 he had got his private pilot's license, and by the time he graduated from the University of Arizona (he went there for his asthma), he had qualified as a commercial pilot and a flight instructor. He sold Piper Cubs, then formed Piedmont Aviation Inc. to combine plane sales, maintenance, flying instruction and charter service. When World War II broke, he began training Air Force flying instructors and ferry pilots. By war's end Davis had piled up $60,000 in profits and was ready to start...
Ensign Edward L. Beach liked it where he was in the fall of 1941. Just a couple of years out of Annapolis and only 23, he was patrolling the Atlantic in an ugly old four-piper destroyer that, to his loyal eyes, looked "lovely." When he was transferred to submarine school, he tried to have his orders rescinded. But he went, of course. On New Year's Day, 1942, he reported to his new home, U.S.S. Trigger (SS 237). Thought young Beach: "Wonder if I'm looking at my coffin?" Trigger did become a coffin...
...nation could afford to tamper with international trade in the past because the U. S. consumer paid the piper in higher prices and never knew the difference. But now these small interest groups are doing more than just milking domestic consumers; they are endangering the economic balance of the free world and may force some Western European nations to turn towards the some West European nations to turn towards the USSR...