Word: wee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tunes of Glory, the screen version of James Kennaway's moody and affecting novel, Jock is both hero and villain of a garrison tragedy. The tragedy begins when Jock, as acting C.O., is superseded by "a spry wee gent" (as Jock ripsnortingly describes him) "wi' tabs in place o' tits." The new colonel (John Mills) is in fact a rather glum plate of porridge, but he is just what the battalion needs on the morning after old Jock's riotous regime. He tightens up training procedures, clears out the administrative mess...
...Fort Worth, Texas, the son of a sometime baseball player and singer, he taught himself how to play the sax when he was 14, went on the road with smalltime bands. Once in Baton Rouge, a crowd so detested his playing that they smashed his sax, and Bandleader Pee Wee Crayton hired him and then wound up paying him not to play. Now enjoying his first real success, Coleman remains confused by the storm his music has created. Says he: "I just play what I hear and what makes sense...
...cars are pre-World War II vintage. "They are strong like a tank and high like a horse," says Farmer Mario Herrera, who gets around the fields in a 1929 Dodge bought by his father. A 1928 Dodge taxi plies Santiago's red-light district in the wee hours, bearing witness to its driver's boast that even "drunks can't destroy...
...typical wee-hour outpouring of words and schemes one day last week, Fidel Castro sat from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. with a Brazilian newsman and delivered a broadside of dictates. On democracy: "It never functioned in Latin America. Elections are a myth. The parliamentary system in Cuba reflected the old system, which we are now destroying. Elections now would be a step backward, with time and effort wasted in sterile discussions and theoretical considerations." On the economy: "Our aim is total direction...
...Bridal Path. In a kilt-edged romp, Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers is back in the heather highlands, rolling his rs downhill toward laughing low-roaders in the audience...