Word: hackney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old John Cuneo spends much of his time with his family on his farms, where he raises hackney ponies, Palominos and Suffolks, drives his friends about in a tallyho on holidays...
...truck a soldier-hackney handed passengers a five-foot piece of two-by-four. Said he: "Here's the bell-bash on the back of the driver's compartment when you want to get off." They did. On another, the driver yelled an invitation to get aboard: "Come on, come...
...schoolboy in the Grocers Company School in Hackney Downs, London, young Gibson invented perhaps the best of all naval war games, Dover Patrol, in 1911. (It was not manufactured until he was mustered out of the British horse artillery in 1919.) In 1925 Gibson designed Aviation, an excellent air war game, and bought up the rights to a French infantry war game, L'Attaque! In 1932 he put all three together in one package as Tri-Tactics. (Gibson sold a whole set of his war games for use in the wardroom of the lost British battleship H.M.S. Hood.) Twice...
Finally the crew got the bomb out and loaded it on a truck. Lieut. Davies took the wheel and drove his hot burden seven miles to Hackney Marsh and blew it up. Robert Davies is a cool number. Of his hair-raising truck drive he commented: "The biggest thrill was that I had speed cops escorting me and the road was mine...