Word: wa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight days earlier the fast and fancy three-year-old Andrea Doria- had departed her home port of Genoa and headed for Cannes, Naples and Gibraltar. Leaving the Rock, the 29,000-ton liner raced westward on her 101st Atlantic crossing. For Captain Piero Calamai and his crew it wa's; routine. For the businessmen, the priests and nuns returning from Rome, the Italian-Americans ending old-country visits, the immigrants bound for the golden shore, the crossing was an event...
Last fall the U.S. State Department sent Althea on a good-will tour abroad. Her enthusiasm plus the responsibility of representing her country did wonders for her often erratic game. From Rangoon to Stockholm her concentration never wa vered. Only Angela Mortimer had the Indian sign on her (in the Scandinavian indoor, the Egyptian international and the Alexandria finals). But last week Althea clipped the wings of Angela, too. Uncertain footwork and an unreliable backhand are large faults to be covered up, even by Althea's grim determination. But so far Althea has managed. When she turns...
...charge which the State Department promptly dismissed as "preposterous.' Last week the Hong Kong government, taking the Indonesian findings at face value, said that "it seems probable that the explosive device was placed in the aircraft in Hong Kong." The British Foreign Office agreed. When the plane wa= serviced and refueled at Hong Kong, the British had kept unauthorized persons away from the plane. Among the mechanics, caterers and others who had authorized admittance to the plane were a number of Hong Kong Chinese...
...Sack speaks to us in not one but nine languages on the pages of this dreary little treatise. There are passages in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and a bastard tongue called Talkie-talkie; phrases like "non, ce n'etait pas moi" (French) and 'nihongo wa wakarimasu ka (Japanese, perhaps) go untranslated; and even when he keeps to English, Mr. Sack uses words like tarsier, euphoria, and hematemesis. The reader might well ask: what is Mr. Sack trying to hide? The answer can be found in chapter 19, if one has the idleness or stamina to read...
Armed with a movie camera, color film, a tape recorder and a public-address system, he headed into the camp in his station wagon. The way wa's barred by a score of bare-chested male nudists (trousered for the occasion) and one comely, sun-suited female, Mrs. June Lange, the convention's pressagent. Like all other visitors, Mrs. Lange explained, the reverend doctor must take off his clothes so he could feel at home...