Word: pompon
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...camel-foot trees along the Nile. At midnight armored cars, Bren gun carriers, lorries packed with troops rolled out from the suburban barracks and into Khartoum and its sister cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North. One unit occupied the radio station; another took over the telephone exchange. Troops in pompon hats and khaki shorts were dropped off in front of the houses of prominent politicians. At 5 a.m. the officeholders were rudely awakened, handed letters firing them from their jobs...
Cartoons & Shorts. For the most part, the Republicans trudged through the script like good town marshals in an uninspired Hollywood horse opera. Even with live pigeons and baby elephants, Chinese dragons and pretty pompon girls to dress up the act, the actors were depressingly well-mannered. But if the feature attraction was predictable, there were some lively cartoons and notable short subjects: a beaming Ike playfully flicking balloons with Joe Martin; Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge cold-shouldering Harold Stassen; Keynoter Langlie imitating Keynoter Frank ("How long, O how long?") Clement; the Eisenhowers and Nixons grouped together beneath the rostrum...
...surprising. Throughout most of his 74 years he followed the herds from their summer pastures among the ice-capped mountains of northernmost Sweden to their winter grounds in the coastal forests. He pitched his tent in the snow and slept with his head pillowed on the red pompon of his cap. In his time he killed 28 bears (and innumerable wolves), which was enough in itself to bring Skum honor in his own country...
...Casa Rosada's White Salon (which is light blue), grenadiers in uniforms of the Napoleonic period-red pompon-topped shakos, blue tunics, red-striped trousers-lined the walls as outgoing President Edelmiro Farrell tearfully handed Perón the mace and threw the colors of office across his shoulders. Then the President, who had seldom ruled, slipped quietly out to the street, hailed a passing cab and went home...
Ever since the once-mighty French battleship Richelieu limped into New York harbor six weeks ago with other ships of the French Navy (TIME, Feb. 22), New Yorkers have sympathetically watched, wined, dined and entertained the French sailors cavorting on shore leave. Easily recognized by the red pompon on their blue caps, the sailors strolled arm in arm up & down Broadway; they crowded the tiny French restaurants in the East Fifties, chatting with waiters, bartenders, barflies. Some started learning a few simple words of English (see cut), some gave their blood to the Red Cross...