Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanksgiving Day last week, Harry's celebrated the 50th anniversary of its opening, and the sentiment flowed as freely as the booze. It seemed that oldtimers had come from all over the world to 5 Rue Daunou ("Just tell the taxi driver 'Sank Roo Doe Noo' ") to pay homage to the good old days...
From East Berlin's Stalinallee to a Paris suburb's Rue Staline,* street signs and statues last week were torn down as Khrushchev's destalinization drive continued. The campaign proceeded without much opposition. An exception was Italy, where Stalin's second death was the center of debate and confusion within the largest Communist party in the West...
...Ivry-sur-Seine (constituency of French Communist Chief Maurice Thorez), where the suburb's Red mayor changed the street to Rue Lenine...
What words are locked in Thurber? There is rue and her (Thurber's battle of the sexes, of course); hurt (the battle does not go well); the rub (Walter Mitty playing Hamlet); rube (the author was an Ohio boy); and true (it is harder to fool little girls these days...
...dedicated under ling: "I like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts of a praying mantis. There is J.B.'s mistress, Hedy La Rue (Virginia Martin), a carrot-topped vixen with a 14-karat heart. And there is the mating-call girl, played by raven-haired Bonnie Scott, who is all ready to be an office widow in the suburbs, "basking in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect," even before she becomes...