Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their lovely valley-full of souls slipping away, steal Cathleen's fortune of gold and tell her that her grain and cattle ships have been lost; she therefore signs away her own (immensely pure and valuable) soul to save the souls of all the others. Brokenhearted by her deed, she dies...
...deed was done in a lucid, ten-page White Paper on Defense, written by 49-year-old Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys, who called it "the biggest change in military policy ever made in normal times." Under the plan, the body strength of Britain's armed forces will be cut in half by 1962. Its battleships will be scrapped, its fighter planes junked, its overseas garrisons drastically reduced. New reliance of the British forces: guided missiles carrying nuclear warheads...
...Mosul, Iraq's second city, which under the program was also receiving a sugar factory, a bridge, a housing project and a new vocational-training school. On a 148,000-acre tract 20 miles from the site of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre plots of land to 20 landless fellahin. The land transfer was particularly symbolic to Iraqis: it marked the first time the area has been irrigated since Mongol hordes wrecked their elaborate irrigation systems 700 years ago. Gaunt, copper-skinned E'Elawi Aboud was one of the first...
...other focal character is a derelict doctor who, we are rather imperfectly told, came to town years before with his wife and the climate drove him to drink. He operated on her in childbirth when he was drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they...
...orthodox breastroke, Sigo Falk and Stanley, both "surface" swimmers, will have trouble keeping up with Yale's "underwater" artists. Both Crimson men have done 2:31, but the Elis' Howie Koletsky and Bill Fleming are five seconds faster. Yale's ace, Deed Hardin (2:24), is on scholastic pro and cannot compete