Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time we get back to Shanghai it will be 16 hours out for me -and only eight hours flying time. We get paid only for flying time. Then all that scrapping at the field to keep from getting overloaded. It was Mukden all over again. You can tell when they get that look in their eyes...
...Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...
...Fish. Rosita raced to La Moneda, Chile's White House. Carmen went home to tell her husband what she had done. He wasted no time on reproaches, hurried off to confess the whole business to his commander. Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
...Java and China giants are known only by their teeth, and therefore hardly known at all. The tooth-filled jaw of Swartkrans Man should tell more about his size and build...
Pearson also counts on the common failing of Congressmen: they can't help talking. "I often tell a friend or two to keep their ears open at a closed-door meeting," says Pearson. During the war, the Merry-Go-Round spilled the news that F.D.R. had irritably snubbed General de Gaulle. "One of the Congressmen who heard it took a few notes," Pearson recalls...