Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor of Guam: Ford Q. (for Quint) Elvidge, 60, Seattle lawyer. When Interior Secretary Douglas McKay asked him whether he would accept the governorship, Elvidge protested that he was not ready to "retire to a South Sea island and sit under a palm tree"; he agreed to take the job only after McKay assured him that it was "a tough assignment." What makes it tough is that the Navy and the civilian administrators are waging a cold war to decide who is going to run the island...
...night last January, after sitting up with some old people, Dorothy Gutheridge started home in her 1948 Ford. Her record as a driver was one thing about which Mrs. Gutheridge could boast. In 28 years of driving she had never been found guilty of a traffic violation. That night. however, as she was swinging into a left turn, she struck and killed 17-year-old LaVonne Anderson. "The first thing I knew, I saw this girl on my fender," said Mrs. Gutheridge. "I don't know where she came from...
...night two weeks ago, as Mrs. Gutheridge was driving home after a day spent caring for two elderly women, one of the shadows she feared took on substance. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Catherine Panko, jaywalking at an intersection, stepped out into the path of Dorothy Gutheridge's Ford. Next day Mrs. Panko died of her injuries...
...Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
Ohio State won the team crown last year, with the Elis second, Michigan third, and Michigan State fourth. In 1951, Yale took first, Michigan State second, and Ohio State third. The Buckeyes' chances for a repetition of their victory have been reduced by the illness of ace freestyler Ford Konno, who won the 1500-meter, the 440, and was third in the 220 freestyle last year...