Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the war, the momentum of his great days in the '30s carried him through a series of mediocre films, but not through a mismatched 1949-52 marriage to Lady Sylvia Ashley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and ex-wife of a couple of British peers...
...With no big tournament golfing experience, willowy Jean Ashley, 21, of Chanute, Kans. entered the national women's amateur in Tulsa "because it's so close to home," startled the field by beating Defending Champion Barbara Mclntire and rising to the finals. But there her beginner's luck ran out against the seasoned JoAnne Gunderson, 21. whose power off the tee set up a 6-and-5 victory...
...first Lord Ashley Cooper, later the Earl of Shaftesbury, was one of the leading lords proprietor of the English Colonies, and the only one to give his names to the two rivers that form the Atlantic Ocean...
...another world. And as the torsts came-by tren and plen and cyah (there were even a few treelas in the new pyaks outside the city limits) -they could count on a reassuring new introduction to Charlestonese-and a vague understanding of what the natives were talking about: Lord Ashley Cooper's Dictionary of Charlestonese* compiled by Columnist Frank (Cheaper by the Dozen) Gilbreth and published by the Charleston News & Courier, was selling like tiny bay shrimp on the streets of Charleston last week. So popular was the dictionary that Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was persuaded to insert...
...Ashley Cooper's Dictionary goes a long way toward clearing up international misunderstandings, but several enlarged new editions will be required before the situation is fully in hand-as in a recent case when a Charleston girl flattened a Manhattan matron with the information that she and Wretched, after a lett dett, were goin' on the tren to Flettruck on Leebadee...