Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accepts compromise with them"-which in the context of the Sino-Soviet quarrel was a clear slap at Moscow. The Prince's maneuver was Orientally scrutable: he feels that "the irresistible march forward of the Chinese people" is certain to sweep all Asia. By riding with the Chinese tiger, he hopes to avoid being gobbled up. It is likely to be quite a ride...
...Heroes. There are many Vietnamese heroes of the long war. One of the most bemedaled is Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Thanh Yen, 42, of the Vietnamese marines, who has spent 15 years fighting the Communists. A bitter, brown gnomish man called the "Little Tiger," Yen last week, as he always does, was walking every step of the way with his 1,400-man Vietnamese task force in Operation Concord. Beside him was his adviser, U.S. Marine Major William Leftwich, 34, whom one of his superiors has called "the best American adviser in the country." They set out early in the dazzling...
Each sect has its own "reforms" from time to time and may talk of "unity," but that is like clipping a few whiskers off the sectarian tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact...
...main types of gags--in-jokes and out-jokes. And there were two types of in-jokes--in-in-jokes and out-in-jokes. Now your average, knowledgeable Harvard man could get most of the out-in-jokes (those concerning "Operation Snatch," or the speed of "Prince Tun's tiger"), but with in-in-jokes he was at a loss...
...fact, the Beatles have no respect for anything, not for Beethoven or for James Bond. Roger the tiger responds favorably only to the chorale from Beethoven's Ninth, so when Ringo is trapped with Roger, Lennon yells, "Ringo, sing famous Beethoven's famous Ninth Symphony." Bond's deadly Aston-Martin becomes a Mr. Whippy truck that leaves a trail of thumbtacks, and Alligator's camouflaged House of Parliament--a parody of a parody--becomes the Kaili's sacrificial temple, brought from the Orient to Bermuda...