Word: ters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Primo pro nummata vini, ex hac bibunt libertini; semel bibunt pro captivis, post hec bibunt ter pro vivis, quater pro Christianis cunctis, quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis, sexies pro sororibus vanis, septies pro militibus silvanis...
Many Guns. Emperor Bao Dai had dipped a negligent finger into the troubled waters, sent orders to Diem from his comfortable villa in Cannes to take three bit ter rivals into his Cabinet. One was General Le Van Vien, whose principal qualification for office was that he headed the Binh Xuyen, a "religious" sect which controls the city's police and also Saigon's gambling (last spring Bao Dai gave him control of the national "surete," too). Another was General Nguyen Van Xuan. who had been Premier of Viet Nam in 1946. The third was General Nguyen...
...every well-bred young lady, Emily spent much of the year at house parties, expected to display her charms to eligible bachelors. Emily was bored to death; to kill time and tedium, she took to botany. One day she overheard staid old Lady Ampthill discussing this choice with Sis ter Betty. The result is a dialogue of priceless, period perfection: Lady A.: Did you see the flower show at the Temple? It was so beautiful, such lovely begonias...
Carter Higgins, chairman of the Worces ter Red Cross chapter, said dourly: "We can't condone the National's ineptness in public relations. This has given us a public-relations problem for a long time." A Waco alderman, ex-Mayor Ralph Wolf, put it more bluntly: "The trouble with the Red Cross," he said, "is that they have too many workers . . . who special ize in making people madder than hell...
...disarmament talks within the U.N., and a further suggestion that both his own and Molotov's arms proposals be put off for private discussion later. This time Molotov surprised the others. "I do not consider it advantageous to draw out discussions," said one of diplomacy's mas ter procrastinators...