Word: alcock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general and three Jordanian ministers of the Arab Union. They ripped out telephones and ransacked the front office. With about 20 other foreigners, apparently seized at random, the Jordanians were loaded into a truck that started off for the Ministry of Defense. Among those seized were three Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets. In front of the ministry gates the truck was trapped by a stalled vehicle in front of it, and the mob attacked...
...like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Portugal, the church was convinced that the people of Lisbon had been punished for not being good Roman Catholics; in Protestant England, the pulpits had it that Lisbon had been leveled because of the vices of Portuguese popery (although Preacher Thomas Alcock asked: "If popish superstition and cruelty made Lisbon fall, how came Rome to stand?"). It was widely expected that London too would be shaken for its sins. Coachloads of gentry left for the country. Others, in the spirit of Mrs. Miniver, carried on. and ladies stitched "earthquake gowns" (a preview...
...first submarine. In World War I, Vickers saw new business in the budding air age, turned out the Vickers "gun bus," one of the world's first planes armed with machine guns (which Vickers also produced). Later, the first flight across the Atlantic was made by Alcock and Brown in a Vickers "Vimy...
Eleven members of the senior class received their letters: Pickard, Prior, T. H, Alcock, John Parkinson, B. H. Dorman, F. A. Clark, David Shaw, S. C. Burns, George Crawford, French, and Guarnaccia...
...Slightly less than 1% of approximately 50,000 thoroughbred horses in the U.S. are greys, their grey genes traceable back in the thoroughbred books to one stallion known as Alcock Arabian or Mr. Pelham's Grey Arab (circa 1650). In some racing circles, there is talk that greys are unlucky and poor stayers, but that has no foundation in the records. For a time, however, the grey line almost died out of racing. The line was resuscitated by a French grey named Le Sancy foaled in 1884. Le Sancy's blood passed down to a powerful procreator named Roi Herode...