Word: brae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living-and made John take piano lessons. John Fox, by his own admission less interested in knowledge per se than in prestige per se, majored in English literature at Harvard, paid his way through as a ragtime pianist at the Copley Plaza (now the oft-mentioned Sheraton Plaza) and Brae Burn Country Club, graduated in 1929 and landed a job with a Boston broker at $20 a week just before the great crash. After the crash, came the 1933 Federal Securities Act, which was "written by lawyers for lawyers, and I didn't even know what...
Ivica Krunic was a fisherman in the village of Bol on the isle of Brae. First as a boy with his brothers, then as a man with his sons, Ivica had pulled his oar with the best in the 25-ft., four-oared boats. But two winters ago, when Ivica was 68, his sons Vicko and Ivo came to him one day with an ultimatum: he must stay home because, unable to pull his weight, he endangered not only his own life but theirs, if the bora struck...
Last week Smith Grant was winding up his busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands. Black peat smoke belched from the distillery's tall chimney, and the pungent odor of fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen...
...honor guard of Belgian troops smartly presented arms on the dock one day last week as the Canadian freighter Beaver-brae nosed into Antwerp's harbor. In the ship were the last of 170 artillery pieces, 23,000 machine guns and rifles, and 2,500 tons of ammunition shipped from Montreal to equip a Belgian infantry division...