Word: donald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then 27, Donald Campbell was not well prepared to make a fight of it ("I'd never traveled at more than 70 m.p.h. on water, and not much more on land"). But he learned. The U.S.'s Stanley Sayres duly broke Sir Malcolm's record in 1950. but by T955 Donald had it back in the family. In his jet-powered Bluebird II, he roared up and down the course on England's Lake Ullswater at an average speed of 202.32 m.p.h...
...group of 140 Eskimos in bright-colored shirts, the women with children slung on their backs, sat attentively in a little wooden schoolhouse at Rankin Inlet on the icebound coast of Hudson Bay. Before them. Anglican Bishop Donald Marsh solemnly intoned: "It apper-taineth to the office of a deacon, in the church where he shall be appointed to serve, to assist the priest in divine service ..." Armand Tagoona, 35, was being ordained the first Anglican deacon in the eastern Arctic...
...missionaries also found that the Eskimos easily identified themselves with Biblical situations. Says stocky. English-born Bishop "Donald the Arctic" Marsh, 55. whose diocese covers more than 2,750,000 square miles and who has spent 33 years there: "Living in a primitive society, the Eskimo had many of the same problems as the Biblical characters. To him, the moral background was perfectly understandable. A great deal of the conception of the Gospel was already there. Being a realist, he tried to put Christianity into practice, and he did it successfully...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Billy Budd, Herman Melville's moving tale of a shipboard murder trial, with Jason Robards Jr., James Donald and Roddy McDowall...
When a Crimson team compiles a 15-2 record and still considers its season a bit of a disappointment, chances are that one of those losses was to Yale. This was the case with this spring's varsity tennis team, which found the Elis, led by Davis Cup nominee Donald Dell, just a little too tough to handle...