Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australia's Adelaide cricket pitch, England's speedball bowlers dropped Australian wickets like ninepins, won the deciding test match by five wickets and kept the Ashes, symbol of international cricket superiority...
...Labor government, famed for his vigorous, salty soapbox oratory; in New Plymouth, New Zealand. A lover of invective, Semple stirred up a diplomatic storm in 1938 by referring to Hitler and Mussolini as "mad dogs," once defended himself against a charge that he was making unfair profits out of Australian building interests by commenting: "I haven't enough assets in Australia to build a toilet for a cockroach...
...Englishmen, a West Indian, and Irishman, an Australian, a South African, a Bermudan, and ten Americans attended Monday's meting...
...Artie Shaw-Jerry Colonna-Ella Fitzgerald-Buddy Rich troupe, which grossed a record-breaking $103,500, came first. Others followed fast. Drummer Gene Krupa was drummed in by a corps of Aussie drummers beating out Sing, Sing, Sing. Crooner Johnnie Ray touched off the wildest teen-age hysteria in Australian history. Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee was condemned by both the Baptist and Roman Catholic churches. Crooner Nat "King" Cole summed it up: ""Boy, no artist can afford to leave out Australia...
Divorced. Alfred ("Harry") Renton Bridges, 53. Australian-born boss of the West Coast's International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union; by his second wife. Nancy Fenton Berdicio Bridges. 42. onetime professional dancer; after eight years of marriage, one child; in Reno...