Word: val
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper and remained true to his socialite wife Jane. If it had not been for the war, lovely, English Valerie Russell would never have become a Red Cross girl, and fallen in love with Brad while still the tacit fiancee of slim, tight-lipped John Wynter. What Brad and Val do to John and Jane and each other in this story of hand-holding across the seas in wartime makes for a slack tale slickly told...
...SHAEF, and a first lieutenant. Haunted by the glacial respectability of his New England future after the war, he wants to have an adulterous fling while he can. But his low-level imaginings rarely embrace anything more than a brief, businesslike interlude with a party girl. Instead he meets Val, the grave-eyed brunette daughter of an invalided British brigadier, fully Jane's social opposite number and twice as good-looking. They fall immediately and desperately in love, and exchange guilty confidences about his wife and her friend Wynter, a commando officer in North Africa. But despite prolonged emotional...
Halos Askew. Against this backdrop, Brad and Val drift towards a hoked-up farewell. Brad volunteers for a suicide outfit with a D-day dawn mission, only to find that his last-minute C.O. is Val's other lover, John. As they make the beach yards apart, both men nearly buy it-but live to come out of it with a reluctant mutual respect. Back in England a few days later, with sacrificial halos slightly askew. Brad and Val call it quits: "She said, 'Turn your head away.' He knew she was leaving...
...from Red China-white rice and spiced beef, ham from Yunnan, berries from Ningpo, litchi from Canton and dried melons from faraway Sinkiang. It might seem a land of plenty that can afford to export so many delicacies. But in Hong Kong one day last week, reported TIME Correspondent Val Chu, a four-year-old girl refugee from Red China sat down with her relatives for a meal of pork and rice. She picked up a piece of pork, licked it, put it down and began shoveling mouthfuls of rice. "What's the matter?" her relatives asked...
...Administration's most flagrant missteps in the internal security field are well known. Among the martyrs have been Wolf Ladejinsky, who was declared a "security risk" by the Agriculture Department and then cleared and re-hired by the Foreign Operations Administration, and Professor Val Lorwin, whom the Justice Department indicted for perjury on what it later admitted were false grounds. The general faults of the security program have included its vague definition of a "security risk", its failure to provide legal officers at hearings, its lack of any machinery for appeals, and its refusal to let the accused employee confront...