Word: quat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near-standstill. Vietnamese army staff officers, anxious to come out on the winning side, sent greetings to Bao Dai, whom they expect to come back from the French Riviera as his country's "arbiter." There was much talk of the Premier's possible replacements: Phan Huy Quat (whom Diem considers a Fascist) and Ho Thong Minh (a former Defense Minister who quit rather than send the army against rebellious sects...
Muttered Peter uneasily: "We have no money at all." Japan's Emperor Hirohito greeted the New Year with his traditional annual poem, which as usual had the lilt wrung out of it in translation. The royal quat rain: "Stout are the hearts/Of men who toil/At their honest calling/Enduring heat and cold." Cinemactress Ava Gardner, a restless siren who has spent the past month roving the world and attending national premieres of her latest movie, The Barefoot Contessa, popped up in Stockholm. She wore shoes to a party in her honor, pursed her moist lips prettily to get a kiss...
...India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt...
Overshadowed by such yeasty oldsters as Picasso, Matisse and Braque, the younger generation of French artists has had a hard time getting itself noticed. But last week Paris gallerygoers got a look at the work of 45-year-old Pierre Tal-Coat (rhymes with kum-quat), who thinks he has found the way. Unlike many of his contemporaries, who were trying to attract attention by loud colors, shocking subjects and explosive forms, he had retreated from noisy, "spaceless" Paris to the cool mountain forests of Provence, and to misty abstractions of rocks, trees and streams...