Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darlene Hard of Montebello, Calif, had not played tournament tennis all season, was too busy working as a counselor at a Massachusetts camp. But after finishing her morning camp chores last week, 22-year-old Darlene got back into action, teamed with Jeanne Arth of St. Paul in an unseeded pairing and, volleying spectacularly, upset Wimbledon Champions Althea Gibson of New York and Maria Bueno of Brazil, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 to win the U.S. Doubles championships at Brookline, Mass...
Then Frank ("Lover Boy") Sinatra, the picture's hero, lounged into town trailed by a variegated crew of camp followers that included Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, a couple of casual redheads, and a court jester named Mack ("Killer") Gray. Less than a day later, love began to die between Metro and Madison...
...Military Government officer in command of Buchenwald Concentration Camp during the final months before it became part of the Russian occupied territory, I was much interested in the trial of SS Guardsman Gerhard Sommer...
...army plot and then loudly put it down with windy proclamations, mass rallies and a general strike. Through three days of crisis, the booming Communist Party played a talented leading role. But conservative military leaders with no plot in mind, kept their tempers down and their tanks in camp and avoided civil...
...longtime expatriate, Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) has not lived permanently in England since 1929. Captured by the Nazis in 1940 in his villa in Le Touquet near Boulogne, Wodehouse was soon released from prison camp, sat out the war in comfortable hotels in Berlin and Paris, made several broadcasts over the Nazi radio that created a storm of criticism in Britain. Though later cleared (dithered Wodehouse later: "A terrible mistake. [I intended them] in the spirit of the British soldier who spoke on the radio to get messages back home"), Wodehouse chose not to return to Britain, came...