Word: tarn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning early last month the 21-ton motor junk Pak Tang (Whits Surge) cleared the tiny South China coastal island of Tarn Kung and headed for Changchow. Aboard the Pak Tang were 35 migrant laborers who since early April had been building a breakwater on Tarn Kung. These were the proletariat of the "New China"-men who under the Nationalists had been schoolteachers, civil servants, army and police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed...
...world's greatest woman athlete, Babe Didrikson dabbled expertly in most sports she did not star in (including boxing, football, swimming, pool, tennis), matured from a pugnacious girl into a talented housewife who could design her own clothes, won several golf tournaments (1954 Women's Open, Tarn O'Shanter) after being stricken with cancer...
Career. Phibun quickly learned the Siamese art of tarn ratthapraharn (masterminding a coup d'êtat). Following a 1933 coup, he became Minister of Defense; in 1938 he took over as Prime Minister and, eventually, as absolute dictator. He assumed the title of Phunam ("The Leader"), changed his country's name to Thailand, and tried to Westernize his countrymen overnight (sample laws: farmers were ordered to wear shoes, and officials to kiss their wives before leaving for the office). In 1941 Phibun capitulated to Japan, later declared war on the U.S. and Britain. Old Friend Pridi...
titles. He has been acclaimed Golfer of the Year twice; he has picked up titles in Panama, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina. He has played for bus fare in local Chamber of Commerce matches and for five figures in the big, well-promoted, postwar tournaments (e.g., the Tarn O'Shanter, the Palm Beach Round Robin...
...Assured at last of independence from France once the Communist threat is erased, the Vietnamese were in no mood to see their independence fall prey to a still strong and unreformed Ho Chi Minh. "The only way to end the war," said Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn, "is to beat the Viet Minh militarily and disperse their armies . . . Negotiations would have the effect of giving the Viet Minh an enormous advantage over...