Word: vinegar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom, its bursts of sweetness are coated with vinegar, its drawn-out lines of resignation elevated by a faith in the enduring human spirit...
...Francisco. The morning papers reported matter-of-factly that the plane was missing. Not until the afternoon editions did word get out that one of the three men aboard was craggy, bespectacled Brigadier General Joseph Warren Stilwell Jr., 54, son of World War IIs Burma campaign hero, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, and since early last year commander of U.S. Special Forces training, headquartered at Fort Bragg...
Stilwell's friends and family held out hope. For one thing, the missing plane was equipped with a four-man life raft, flares, and other emergency gear. Besides, Stilwell had always had his father's famed knack for survival. As leathery and almost as prickly as Vinegar Joe, he came to be known among his troops as "Cider Joe." A 1933 West Point graduate, Joe Stilwell won his combat spurs as a colonel in Burma campaign headquarters and as commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in Korea. From 1962 to 1964, he commanded the U.S. Support Group...
...accidents. Even so, total U.S. outlays for arthritis and rheumatism research come to little more than $15 million a year-as against $300 million poured down the drain in desperation for quack "remedies," ranging from diets to sitting in old uranium mines, from bee venom to honey and vinegar. The troubles are classified in four major groups...
...Hué, all during the Diem years, Tri Quang was building up a Buddhist movement modeled after the Communist organizations that he had seen Ho employ against the French. To combat Diem's police, he organized special teams of young monks with flit guns filled with vinegar and red pepper. He had spies tucked neatly inside every fold of the Diem administration. He penetrated the regime's elite Cong Hoa youth, often got possession of top secret documents within 24 hours after they had been issued. One such paper was by Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu: Communiqu?...