Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...TIME, Aug. 14), took advance elements of the ist to Korea for the first Marine battles there. In World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland. He missed the 1st Marine Division's epochal blooding on Guadalcanal...
...Mario Zafred, 28, music critic for Rome's Communist L'Unitá, sneers at twelve-tone theories ("It's no different from boxing, except in the ring you count only to ten"), prefers to follow Moscow-dictated formulas for "non-decadent" music. The first and last movements of his Resistance Symphony were brash and hackneyed enough to please the most fastidious commissar. But in the soft-spoken second movement and the effervescent scherzo, Zafred's melodic sense and Latin high spirits almost rattled the composition off its one-track party line...
...hard man to beat. For the first two rounds he just jabbed and retreated while Saddler, usually misfiring with his punches, kept up a relentless pursuit. Late in the third round, Saddler caught Willie squarely with a looping left, dumped him to the canvas for a nine count. The champion was jarred, but he got up and danced out of harm...
...show opens with a child actor wishing he could be some character in fact or fiction. No sooner said than done: with Mr. L's "magic" intervention he becomes Abraham Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created...
There are other things, little things, that count. Some Frenchmen continue to address adult Vietnamese in the familiar "tu"-a pronoun which in French is reserved for children, intimates and riffraff. This habit could be uprooted with slight effort...