Word: shepherds
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Allah!", stoning and cudgeling Europeans and Eurasians, overturning automobiles, driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother: "It's hard having two mothers. I love you, and I love...
...even begun a fight to take tactical aviation away from the Air Force and put it back in the Army, so that it would be coordinated with ground forces as it is in the Marines. And the ranking Marine Corps officer in the Pacific, Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, was reported to be disappointed because Harry Truman had given MacArthur "only" a Distinguished Service Medal (his fifth) instead, of the Medal of Honor, to add to the M.H. he won in the Philippines...
...nourishment, his picture boasts a table laden with fish, fruit, ham, chicken, lobster and a skinned hare. The rest of the painting seems to show that it takes all kinds to make a world: there are a broad-beamed model, a shepherd boy with a goat, a Negro with a wheelbarrow, a bishop, a gargoyle, a rat, a frog, a monkey, a barking dog and a girl with a bouquet, whom Lorjou describes as "the pretty woman one sees every day some place...
...Notes. In the column, "This England," the magazine regularly passes on to readers with an amused smile such deadpan comments on manners & morals as "The true story of the worst criminal in London's history. An admirably ghoulish play suitable for all the family. From poster for Shepherd's Bush Empire...
Bunkers & Bumps. The most famous golf course in the world does not show all its hazards immediately. It stretches out like a long and gnarled shepherd's crook-so narrow that there are seven double greens with both outgoing and incoming pins-but the newcomer is often vaguely disappointed at his first view to find that it does not look particularly formidable. What the newcomer soon learns: 1) there is hardly a level lie on the course, and 2) the holes are defended by some of the most fiendish bunkers in existence...