Word: sloe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble to kill a juramentado. The Moros are fierce fellows whose teeth are stained black and their lips red from chewing betel nut. A juramentado has the strength of a man slashing his way, with a wicked, wavy-edged kris, to a Moro heaven filled with sloe-eyed houris. When the U.S. Army first occupied the Philippines, many a soldier was killed after emptying his .38 into a Moro who kept on coming. So the Army switched to .455, which nearly kick a man's arm off but are no respecters of frenzy...
...well-behaved, hungry, they made friends with the police, made friends with the senoritas, made friends with the barmaids, all in no time. By the time the Bear sailed for Boston and the North Star for Seattle, the excitement of returning was over; the women no longer seemed like sloe-eyed goddesses, and for breakfast bacon & eggs tasted better than steak...
Coups d'état are familiar features of the Iraqi political landscape. Sportive, fast-driving, ham Radioperator King Ghazi I survived three. Since 1939 when Ghazi wrapped roadster and self around an electric-light pole, Iraq's ruler has been his son, King Feisal II, a sloe-eyed moppet of five. Regent has been Faisal's Anglophile uncle, weak-chinned Prince Abdul Illah. In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals...
After booming the circulation of Egyptian newspapers for the past two months, the trial of Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning in court when pomaded, silk-shirt-wearing Ahmed Salem's expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel...
...Buenos Aires theatre last summer, white-haired Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried: "Never in my life have I seen such fire and rhythm!" Platinum-haloed Maestro Leopold Stokowski, who knows fire and rhythm, got Dancer Carmen Amaya to give a special performance for him and his All American Youth Orchestra, willingly paid a fine for keeping the theatre open after midnight. Glossy-domed Impresario Sol Hurok, who knows a good thing even when he doesn't see it, signed up Carmen Amaya by cable for a U.S. visit...