Word: vanguarde
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...sailed a party of U.S. emigrants, bound for Australia. In the party were only 20 men (all ex-G.I.s who had been stationed in Australia), the Aussie war brides of twelve of them, and twelve children. But Australia hoped that many, many more U.S. veterans would follow this vanguard...
...bawl out the customers. Seconds later, her ample hips bouncing, her abdomen lewdly rolling, she was shouting the blues at the top of her voice. Last week, after a 17-year absence, Bertha ("Chippie") Hill was back at her old trade. To Manhattan's smoke-filled Village Vanguard, deep in a Greenwich Village cellar, her name had drawn a record opening-night crowd which egged Chippie on with wild applause after each number and plied her with shots of straight gin after the show...
...This vanguard contingent is all sixth and seventh term men, who will be followed next Monday and Tuesday by third and fourth termers, respectively. Men in their fifth term bring up the rear a week from Friday...
...best force was still near Concepción. The rebels called for Asunción's surrender. Morínigo retorted that the rebels would be squeezed to death between his two armies, ordered the capital to remain calm. Foreign diplomats did not take him seriously. A vanguard had already moved across the border to safety in Argentina...
Last week, the Three Flames-Pianist Roy Testamark, Guitarist George ("Tiger") Haynes and Bull Fiddler Averill ("Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during...