Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many Americans know (as Charlestonians do) that the Union (ugly word) consists of 50 highly questionable states and one highly sovereign city? And who else can go to bed at night with the comforting assurance that the Atlantic Ocean is formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers-right over yonder in Charleston Harbor? Above all, Charleston has its own language, a tongue completely beyond the comprehension of most other Americans, including many South Carolinians...
Died. Countess Mountbatten of Burma (nee the Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley), 58, aristocratic English beauty who traded her famous gowns for nursing garb at the outbreak of World War II and has worked for the Red Cross ever since, as the last Vicereine of India won the affection of India's impatient nationalists; in her sleep; in Jesselton, North Borneo...
...first two legs, Crimson captain Koni Ulbrich and Fred Cooley kept even with their two opponents. The third leg saw Bill Zenegraf gain a slight lead on a fresh Pat Taft, enough then to allow Bob Kaufmann to outdistance Ashley Norfleet by one yard...
Navy has five top-flight swimmers-Ashley Norfleet, in the free-style; George Worthington in the butterfly; Arnold Kieban in the backstroke; Pat Taft, intercollegiate 100-yard breast stroke champion; and Colonel (sic) Griffin, who last year set the American 200-yard breast stroke record, giving Navy an added versatility in that event. (Griffin has swum the individual medley in 2:12, far ahead of any of the varsity's performers...