Word: ho
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gung-Ho Look. Both units are completely integrated and in the same proportion-about 17% Negro. And there were grounds for grievances other than racial. The Quartermaster Company, the only Army unit on the base, must submit to a midnight bed check, while airmen have only to report for duty each morning. As an airborne unit, the Quartermaster Company keeps in rugged physical shape, has the tough look of gung-ho soldiers. The men of the Supply unit have the look of office workers and the vanity of intellectuals. One airman sneered, "You could take that whole Army company across...
...China is also wooing its yellow and brown brothers in the Asian Communist parties, with considerable success in Japan, Ceylon and, of all places, New Zealand. North Viet Nam's wispy leader, Ho Chi Minh, is ambiguous about his loyalties, but must reflect that Red China is next door while Russia is far away. Indonesia's Red chief, D. N. Aidit, walks a zigzag line, and Burma, typically, has two Communist factions-one for Mao, one for Khrushchev...
...Ho Chi Minh government did requisition my house and my law office in Hanoi in September 1945, immediately after the Viet Minh revolution in North Viet Nam, but that was only an effect, not the cause of my disapproval of Communism...
Boys in Baggies. The true surfer is scornful of the "ho-daddies" (a gibe of undetermined origin) and "grem-mies" (gremlins, usually girls), those hangers-on who may never get wet behind the ears as far as surfing goes but like to immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the in group. To all, "baggies" are the loose-legged boxer swim trunks worn by the boys. "Hot dogging" is either class-A surfing or show-off stuff. To "take gas" or "wipe out" is to lose a board in the curl of a wave and land in the foamy "soup...
Besides his challenges in space, Mueller faces an earthly problem at NASA. Holmes was an ebullient manager, ran an exciting shop. Since his resignation announcement, his men have lost a lot of their old moon-ho spirit. "It's no fun to work here any more," a NASA spaceman recently grumbled. Mueller has a big job ahead just getting morale back into orbit...