Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke out, and was ticketed to train the new-fledged ROK air force. The colonel found that his soldier's duty still left him enough time to satisfy his Christian conscience-by founding a home for war orphans and setting up an airlift that carried about a thousand of them...
...began with the Monty Woolley scandal of 1949. That was when the HDC's highly successful Boston production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Woolley in the title role, came to a disastrous end by the Club's business manager making off with the ten thousand dollar ticket receipts. That enterprising young man has never been seen since, and neither have the comfortably low admission prices for Harvard drama of that...
Soon the mansion is oppressive with rampant femininity. Curtains part to reveal a feminine world of black bras and girdles, as a woman, whose soberer decisions may mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to a U.S. clothing firm, peers into a mirror with the teetering look of calculated indecision, the peculiar mark of a woman buying a dress for herself. Outside, a thousand newspapers and a hundred periodicals were beginning to thunder the word to the limit of the known world. This year the word on Dior is: "The line is free, free as the Paris air ... free from making...
...pesos a foot high, hinted that he had plenty more. The morale of the rebels, whose number Castro kept to himself, seemed high. Batista's troops "never know where we are, but we always know where they are," Castro said. "We can pick them off at a thousand yards with these guns...
...world go round. Boasted Exile Peroón: "I have multimillionaire friends all over the world. For the past two years, a castle and a speed boat have been waiting for me in Lake Como, Italy. I could spend the last years of my life eating thousand-dollar bills, but I chose the harder road." Does that road lead back to Argentina and a joyous welcome home? Maudlin at the prospect of this vision, Juan Peroón disclosed the degree of his power sickness: "Peroónism without Peroón! It is easy...