Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Aime Felix Tschiffely, 58, Swiss-born British schoolmaster who emigrated to Argentina, won fame and fortune after he made a 10,000-mile trip on horseback from Buenos Aires to Washington, D.C. (1925-28), wrote two widely read accounts of his feat (From Southern Cross to Pole Star, Tschiffely's Ride); after an operation; in London...
Loving. He married Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold), the wildcat daughter of Dominican Dictator Trujillo, and stayed married to her for five years. The Dictator, apparently impressed by this feat, made him a diplomat. Once established on the Continent, Rubi found ways of maintaining himself in expensive luxury. He had setbacks. The Germans threw him into a detention camp during World War II. Back in Paris in 1944 he was wounded in a mysterious street shooting. But Rubi was undismayed. He married French Actress Danielle Darrieux (a collector's item), and capped this by marrying Doris ("Richest Girl...
...also a year in which a white man and a brown man, held together by a light nylon rope, climbed the highest mountain. In this feat of the New Zealand beekeeper, Edmund Hillary, and the sinewy Sherpa tribesman, Tenzing, millions down in the mundane valleys felt a vicarious exhilaration-the reminder that by valor and dedication man may surmount his Everests...
...industry, could boast of checking its downward economic trend. While 21,000 textile jobs in the area disappeared during the year, more than that number opened up in such new fields as electronics and light metals.Typical of New England's Yankee ingenuity in creating new jobs was the feat performed by the little town of Harmony, Me. Its 700 harmonious citizens contributed $22,000 to pay one-third the cost of a new shoe factory which will employ 120 people. At Framingham, Mass.. Suburban Centers Trust Co.'s huge retail area (see cut) was typical...
Weatherwise, the year which just ended was an outstanding one in at least three respects. It was as warm as any one on record in Cambridge. Also, it accomplished the almost phenomenal feat of being the second wettest year and at the same time delivering a crippling drought...