Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was one other meal that caused no end of consternation. The Archbishop was not invited to the royal banquet following the wedding of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko-apparently because imperial officials had confused him with the Communist-lining "Red Dean" of Canterbury. "It's fearfully embarrassing for Ambassador Sir Oscar Morland," said one Briton. "Morland has been invited, yet Fisher outranks him. In fact, Fisher outranks everyone in England except the royal family...
American Motors' economy claims got a boost last week in an open trial-the 1959 Mobilgas Economy Run. At the end of the five-day, 1.898-mile trip from Los Angeles to Kansas City, Mo. the honors went to a Rambler American Deluxe driven by Woody Bell, 44. The Rambler topped the 47-car field with an average 25.2878 miles per gallon; a Rambler Deluxe was second, with a 22.9572-m.p.g. average. Third place was won by a Studebaker Lark Deluxe, with 22.4422. For the first time entries were judged this year on an actual miles-per-gallon basis...
...Army guardhouses, drunkards, professional bad-men, adolescent adventurers; their one unifying trait was that they seemed to care little for this world. The mission assigned them sounded simple. While General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese divisions held the Japanese in position, the Marauders were to slice around end in long flanking attacks and set up roadblocks in the rear. The technique worked at Walawbum and Shaduzup; at Myitkyina it ended in disaster for the 5307th...
...book's title is taken from a Chinese poem in which a lonely man in a watchtower looks out across a barbarous and a desolate land. But it is also the gate at which the sentinels of civilization have always stood guard and always died in the end. The scene of this modern tale of horror is Africa, where the Roman watch fell to the Vandals 1,500 years ago, and where today the British guard is falling to nationalism. Whatever its accuracy as an omen, By the North Gate is one of the year's most chilling...
...visitors kept the ball in Harvard territory for most of the first half, and in the closing minutes before intermission their scrum half flipped the ball to his wing who sliced around end for ten yards...