Word: pompoms
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...mess to pour over his peaches and ice cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter's gung-ho tactics in combat off Viet Nam that really upset the junior officers...
...long last, a Hollywood production designer has learned something about the true-life tastes of the tasteful rich. Everybody is beautiful, worldly and fairly damned-everybody, that is, except Actress Reynolds, who, after ten years in pictures and a highly publicized scandal-divorce, is still playing the head pompom girl of Beverly Hills High...
Under this benign rain, Uchinada's population jumped to more than 6,500; slate roofs replaced thatch, and radio ownership almost doubled. In such circumstances it was hard to resent the 28 Americans stationed at the firing range, particularly since they committed no rapes, imported no "pompom" girls and even cheerfully helped clear the roads when it snowed...
...picture was written, produced, directed and acted by Noel Coward. The Royal Navy helped in its making, saw that naval details were correct down to the last pompom. Its hero is widely supposed, though Coward has denied it, to be Coward's friend Lord Louis Mountbatten, who commanded and lost a destroyer (H.M.S. Kelly) before he became Commando-in-Chief. Coward plays the part...
...pounder blew a hole in the flight deck to starboard, smashing planes about to take off in the next flight, causing heavy casualties among the mechanics servicing them. Another tore through the side plate, another plunged close by into the sea, its bursting fragments spattering the crew of one pompom...