Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Four Cantabrigians who played contract bridge nonstop for 73 hr. 45 min. (618 hands, 87 rubbers), surpassing the old record by 35 min.
¶ A 40-year-old Lancashire engineer who played the piano for 134 hr. straight.
John Stuart Mill, in his essay On Liberty, considered eccentricity in a nation's character to be "proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained." Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his...
These are isolated feats. The real craze at the moment is hiking against the clock. The fad started a month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service...
"To assure the security of Western Europe," wrote Charles de Gaulle in the final volume of his memoirs, it will be necessary for France "to lead into one political, economic and strategic grouping the states whose frontiers run with the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees."