Word: carrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose classmates...
...lord among them. But one day last week a black Ford pulled up to the door, and out jumped a chubby-cheeked new boy of eight. For England, this was big news indeed: His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, and Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, was going to elementary school-the first heir apparent to the throne to do so in the history of the kingdom...
...last year's district finals, Melody, a straight A student at Pittsburgh's Carrick Junior High, muffed thyrsus, placed second. Natalie Sachko rolled up her sleeves and stepped up the training program, saw to it that Melody pored over the word slips for at least an hour each night, upped it to three hours as the Bee buzzed nearer. ¶as in Deciduous. When the Big Test came in Washington's Commerce Department auditorium one day last week, Melody felt that she was as ready as she would ever be. But so did 62 other crack young...
...presented himself ("Athletic and amusing," said Vicki). Soon after, over cocktails at a London club, Vicki inspected two more candidates, 41-year-old Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ("charming") and Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, 52, 6th Marquess of Donegal and governor of Carrick-fergus Castle ("suave"). "I didn't know what to call them-my lord, or what," said Vicki. "They told me the correct way was to say Lord So-and-So, but in a few minutes we were calling each other by first names." That same day an application came...
...paradoxical that a physical shortcoming should disqualify him, because other physical gifts had brought him there in the first place. A 220-pounder, many colleges sought Schmitt after he had made a name for himself as a tackle at Carrick High School in Pittsburgh. Schmitt decided on. Pitt because it was closer to home and Jock Sutherland was producing great teams there...