Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon was furious. The city's new motto: "Let's put the center back in the middle." Citizens fired off letters to Washington, and Lebanon Mayor Raymond Schuette snapped peckishly: "We just don't see this as something funny...
Army Salute. Voting began without debate. On the first ballot, with the rebels as well as most of Chamoun's men voting solidly for him. General Chehab received 42 votes-just two short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Beirut's Independent Raymond Edde polled a surprising ten votes from Lebanese Christians who had begun to suspect that Chehab's election now would amount to a rebel victory. Edde, respected son of a former President, had himself proposed Chehab's name early in the revolt, but insisted that his own withdrawal now would be "to surrender...
...flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat him in the primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson's TV moxie or his nonstop attacks on Gary administration corruption...
...Barrister Sir Raymond Bastable, owner of the hat and an "overbearing dishpot," who assumes that the David behind the slingshot is a youthful delinquent, and is inspired to write (anonymously) a bitter exposure of British youth in the form of a novel named Cocktail Time...
...Albert Peasemarch, butler to Sir Raymond, who has "about as much brain as you could comfortably put in an aspirin bottle," but whose skill in giving her cocker spaniel an emetic awakens the love of Sir Raymond's sister Phoebe...