Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king-gear," rumbled Thomas Carlyle one day, "and there is left nothing but a poor, forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...
Admiral Earl Mountbatten, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, took time off at Naples, adjusted his undersea fishing gear, dived into the Gulf of Salerno for a little subterranean exploration...
...large oil slick about six miles off Cape Camarat, near Toulon. Soundings were made; what seemed to be the wrecked submarine was located at a depth of 2,000 feet. All night searchlights swept the dark water, but there was really no hope of finding survivors: submarine escape gear is useless below a depth of 250 feet. Next morning the French navy announced officially that La Sibylle and the 48 men aboard her had been lost...
...finally issued its long-awaited order allowing steel users to pass along all increases in their costs from the steel wage-price settlement, there was new upward pressure on many prices. Nevertheless, the big U.S. productive machine was now in such high gear that there were signs of softening in some prices (see below...
...hole, over Shirley McFedters, University of California at Los Angeles coed; in Portland, Ore. Roly-poly (210 lbs.. 5 ft. 3 in.) Mrs. Pung, 29, after winning was given a buss and a lei by U.S. Golf Association President Totten Heffelfinger, who asked her to bring her hula gear to next year's tournament...