Word: elspeth
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...