Word: rum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service dress and carrying a submachine gun, marched the no miles from Dorset to London, eating buns and sipping rum for fuel, staggered across the Charing Cross finish line in mid-London 36 hr. 27 min. later, gasped: "Tell that to the marines!" The marines were serenely proud of his deed. Said a Marine surgeon: "We learned a lot. There were emotional stresses during the long, lonely night part...
...highlight the contributions of Bahia to Brazilian culture, some 1,000 objects, ranging from gaily painted gourds and handsomely decorated clay pots to ritual drums (named rum, rumpi and lé) and the ornate paraphernalia of the colorful candomble religious dances brought over from Africa, have been put on exhibition at São Paulo's Bienal. More than 40,000 visitors throng the exhibition weekly; visiting critics, discovering a new folk art they never knew existed, have told Brazilians: "This is your great...
...scholar and onetime University of Texas quarterback, was named president in 1954 and set out to raise Maryland's academic standing, Tatum got itchy feet. In 1956, taking a salary cut from $18,500 to $15,000, Jim Tatum went home to North Carolina. Said he with a rum-Wing chuckle: "I'm going back to North Carolina...
...running 5% ahead of 1958-U.S. cigarette companies have taken off on a scramble to grab a bigger share of the $4¼ billion-a-year cigarette market. Each hopes to turn the trick by outdoing its competitors with new cigarettes that offer the U.S. smoker everything from rum flavor to air-conditioned paper...
...foreman at a distant cane plantation, he asks Tiger to come along as his assistant and timekeeper. They wind up in a hut at Five Rivers, where sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun by day, pour rum down their parched throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto...