Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen Elizabeth II, whose stables house such fleet specimens of horseflesh as her stakes-collecting four-year-old Aureole, learned that she had topped Britain's racehorse owners in supplementing her monarchial income this past season. Her total winnings: $114,780, picked up in 19 races by ten of her thoroughbreds-a record turf bonanza for a member of Britain's royal family...
...miles from the Chekiang coast) and dropped more than 40 bombs, killing five persons. Previously, during the September skirmish around Quemoy, the Reds had used artillery only, and Washington concluded that the Communists were exercising prudence to make sure that air power did not tangle with the U.S. Seventh Fleet. Apparently, the Communists are now prepared to take greater risks...
...most other rigs), will triple the area that can be explored on the continental shelf off Texas and Louisiana. Mr. Gus was bought by (and named for) C. G. ("Gus") Glasscock, 58. a onetime high-wire acrobat and wildcatter who now owns eight drilling barges for lease. The small fleet's new flagship is being towed to a point off San Luis Pass below Galveston to sink its first test well (in 40 ft. of water) for Shell Oil. which has a 16-month lease on the craft...
...Thompson, the fleet sophomore halfback from last year's team, has been sidelined for most of this season with various injuries, and it is doubtful now if he could even break into the starting lineup. Archie Williams, a 165-pound junior halfback from Springfield, and Vin Jazwinski, a 195-pound fullback from Whippany, N.J., have taken over the rushing leadership of the League. The former has 517 yards, the latter, 426. Matt Botsford of Harvard is third with...
...slowly. Lady Margaret survives the harrowing siege of Bedford and the fall of the House of Brealte, repudiates her husband, eventually suffers the ignominious fate of ostracism. In Leopards and Lilies, talented Author Duggan (The Little Emperors) is caught with his drawbridge down: the story is not as fleet as Angevin England's fast-moving Leopard banners. But, as usual, Duggan has a thorough grasp of the political and social hanky-panky of his period. The publisher offers unsatisfied buyers of the book any substitute title they may pick off the current bestseller list, but current bestsellers being what...