Word: classical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading the article on the sleepy people, I remembered Joe, the fat boy,* in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens. I always thought it a poor invention by the writer, but now I see that it is a classic description of narcolepsy...
Pass the Ammunition. As a marines' marine, Shoup is not much of a speech-maker-but he has a way of making himself understood. His battle report from Tarawa was a classic: "Our casualties heavy. Enemy casualties unknown. Situation: we are winning." His view of orders received: "If we can read it, we can do it." When tapped to help establish the Marine Corps' Fiscal Division, he went into isolation for days, emerged with a staff study that impressed everyone. Asked how he did it, he told the story of a sculptor who carved an elephant without ever...
...trained and equipped in North Viet Nam, last month invaded the remote northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. Slipping expertly through the suffocating jungle, the Red guerrillas surprised one small Laotian army garrison after another, inflicted 300 casualties on government forces and captured several villages lying astride the classic invasion route into Laos from the battle-renowned village of Dienbienphu...
...McMahon Frontier. The classic Chinese-Indian borders were set in 1914 at a meeting in Simla of British, Chinese and Tibetan representatives, presided over by Sir Henry McMahon. That meeting gave China nominal suzerainty over inner Tibet but not the right to interfere with its internal administration, and delineated a frontier between India and Tibet, following the spur of the Himalayas through wild and remote country. Declared Nehru last week: "So far as we are concerned the McMahon line is the firm frontier, firm by treaty, firm by right, firm by usage and firm by geography." Therefore he could...
Minutes later, Dominguin's No. 1 rival was out on the sand displaying his own classic style with sword and cape. Young Antonio Ordonez, 27, moved his bull closer and closer with dangerous, kneeling rodillazos. Finally the animal was slowed to a befuddled walk, drawn to the muleta as though hypnotized. Up in the stands, Ordoñez' aficionados shouted: "Si, tú el primero...