Word: told
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allowed to sleep in an "unbearably" cold tent with insufficient blankets, Singh was awakened for another interrogation of 9½ hours and told he would not get adequate shelter until the examination was concluded to Chinese satisfaction. With this stimulus to speed and agreement, Singh gave precise details of the arms, function and organization of India's border patrols, his own operations prior to the ambush, and the location of Indian check posts throughout Ladakh. As a reward, he got some padded cotton clothing, which did not fit. At this point the Chinese set out to rewrite history...
...washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two recent record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed...
Picking from faculty suggestions of shirker sophomores and juniors, Amherst Dean C. Scott Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave. Of the twelve who failed to fulfill their potential, one had a B average, the others had C or below. All may return next fall, with what Amherst hopes will be "added maturity and perspective...
...Piaf, 44, went on. And because she was Piaf, French newspapers followed her through every symptom. They had long since told the chronicle of her sorrows: the childhood blindness, the unhappy love affairs, the near-fatal auto accidents. They had recorded her illness in Paris in 1954, the collapse in Stockholm in 1958, last year's major surgery (for a gastric ulcer) in New York. Now the headline writers seemed engaged in a macabre watch. "Piaf suffers and refuses to capitulate," cried Paris-Journal. "Piaf falling like Moliere on the planks of the provincial coliseum*-that was worth...
...Paris exhibit at Chicago. I think it belongs there, and I think it a tribute which the French should appreciate. True, there was no need to fly the Tricolor above it." Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks to his children. "One day the grizzly bear was out gathering wood for the fire," the father improvises shakily. "He had nothing on but his bearskin, and the flies were driving him mad ..." The son objects contemptuously: "I don't like the way he tells...