Word: wha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some folks dare to call Vinson "Uncle Carl," and sometimes "The Swamp Fox," after the Revolution's great strategist, Francis Marion. In committee hearings Uncle Carl's slow drawl and subtle digs ("Wha'd'ya say yer name wuz, Gen'ral?") can shake stars and tangle braid. Though he has long been a stalwart defender of a big Navy, knowledgeable Carl Vinson is also a wise, powerful force for a strong military establishment. But Ike's plan was too much for Uncle Carl...
...secret" blend of Cuban coffee. Most she orders from New York wholesalers, but the Luziane is shipped from New Orleans. To hurry it along, Tulla occassionally resorts to urgent dispatches like the card she sent last week: "Help, help! We ordered six pounds of Luzaine several weeks ago. Wha hoppened...
...celebrate the first anniversary of his coming to power, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem struck three heavy blows last week against the Hoa Hao (pronounced Wha-How), the second of his country's rebellious warlord sects. Diem sent in two nationalist infantry divisions and four amphibious groups against the Hoa Hao, a rowdy private army of dissident Buddhists who run their own feudal entity-and squeeze the peasants with taxes-in rice-rich western Viet Nam. Premier Diem first offered the Hoa Hao a chance to integrate themselves into the national army and form a peaceful political party...
...Play Me Hearts and Flowers," Johnny Desmond finds himself up against the words, "and let me cry." He sings them like this: "Hun-n-nd Elogt ma-hovcra-high." The well known words. "Why, oh why do I love Paris" are handled by a rising chantrense in this manner, "Wha aw wha ah luv Parise...
...University of Wisconsin has been broadcasting only two hours a
day for the past two months over experimental WHA-TV (initial cost:
$175,000). In November, Wisconsin voters will be asked in a referendum:
"Shall the state . . . provide a tax-supported, noncommercial
educational-television network?" WHA-TV has been working hard to make
the answer yes. Its bill of fare: a bedtime-story series for children,
language lessons, courses in geology, art appreciation, civics.