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Word: elspeth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kikuyu in a golden, pre-European past. The book contained a photograph of a bearded Kenyatta carrying a spear and wearing a blue monkey cloak slung over his shoulder?all fabricated to make him look more like a tribal elder than a Western student. He was, as British Author Elspeth Huxley once observed, "a showman to his fingertips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Old Man Dies at Last | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...final 200-yd. freestyle relay, which scores seven points for the winning team, decided the meet. The leadoff legs swam by Elspeth Farmer and Landedelt lost some ground but a storming finish by Costin and Fayer sent the Greenies home losers...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Harvard Swimmers Down Dartmouth, 68-45; Radcliffe Wins, 72-59 | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson relay team of Sharon Beckman, Elspeth Farmer, Jane Fayer, and Maura Costin set a new team record of 4:00.1, breaking the old record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Drown Opponents | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Miss Marple once told her friend Elspeth McGillicuddy during a horticultural discussion, "Peonies are unaccountable. Either they do- or they don't do. But if they do establish themselves, they are with you for life." The old spinster apparently became like the peonies in her garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marple Is Willing | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...most experienced skater for the Bladettes was first-year student Elspeth Taylor who formerly skated for the Pembroke Players. Taylor said that she and most of the girls play for the exercise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watson Ice Hosts Women; Ms. Sticks Rout Bladettes | 3/15/1974 | See Source »

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