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...Dwight Eisenhower begins his last year in the White House, he admits to a sustaining vision of life at another home: his 192-acre Gettysburg farm, with its promise of relaxed living, carefree hours padding about the yards and fields, and overseeing his herd of black Aberdeen Angus cattle...
...Side by Side." Last week, settling back for a winter's hibernation in his white bungalow in Aberdeen, Hulet calculated his season's kills at 56, fretted to his wife about a lost dog ("Queen's a part of me, kind of wildlike and vicious to everyone but me"), and spun yarns to a visitor about great hunts of the past: "The closest call I've ever knowed, I shot a bear at close range that was tearin' at the dogs. The bear he jumped up and leaped right at me. I shot...
...captained the battle cruiser Renown that stalked and sank Germany's Bismarck in World War II, commanded the first Allied landings in the toe of Italy and was blown from his ship during the assault, was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1951-55); in Aberdeen, Scotland...
Dors & Drawers. From Aberdeen to Bath, boys cracked jokes that the Opies trace to Queen Anne's day. Girls cured warts by rubbing them with lard and then burying the lard (a method described by Francis Bacon). They performed a levitation stunt that once fascinated Samuel Pepys. They still believe that reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards makes the Devil appear, and like the Elizabethans, seldom dare...
Next day the President's trip took him to Aberdeen's Dyce Airport, thence to Balmoral Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II was waiting. It was a drizzly day. The fragrance was on the heather. Fat Black Angus cattle grazed on the rolling hills. Trout-filled streams gurgled cheerfully. U.S. reporters rolling out into the Highlands with the President and Prince Philip, who had met him, were surprised that so few Scotsmen wore kilts. But when they got to the gates of royal Balmoral, the Americans got the full treatment-bagpipes howling fiendishly, Royal Highland Fusiliers crashing to attention...