Word: harrowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hauck, an Englishman from Harrow, nosed out Wayne Andersen in the 220, reversing a narrow defeat to his teammate in the Yale meet here a week ago. Hauck built up a solid lead around the curve and held on in the stretch, snapping the tape in 0:22.1, 0:00.3 faster than the record set last year...
...Jordan's plucky King Hussein, 29, ignored his tantrum-prone younger brother Mohammed, 24, to bestow the title of Crown Prince on Prince Hassan, a gifted Harrow graduate who is already enrolled at Oxford at the age of 17. By so doing, Hussein took the crown rights from his own infant son, three-year-old Prince Abdullah. He feared Jordanians would reject Abdullah as King because the child's mother, Princess Muna (formerly Toni Gardner), was a British commoner. After the decision was announced, Princess Muna flew abruptly to Britain for a "medical checkup," taking Abdullah...
...Margaret's, the House of Commons' parish church, the Archbishop of Canterbury intoned, "We commend to God Winston Spencer Churchill as he approaches death." A private message from the Pope was delivered by Monsignor Cardinale, the apostolic delegate to Britain. There were special prayers at Harrow, his old school, and at Castle Rising, near Sandringham. where the Queen and members of the royal family attended church...
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a prominent and controversial Tory politician, and his American-born bride, Jennie Jerome of New York, Churchill was an erratic scholar as a boy, but he was finally graduated from Harrow and from Sandhurst, England's military academy...
...history. Fortnum's supplied Wellington's officers with hams and butter during the Napoleonic Wars and shipped 250 Ibs. of concentrated beef tea to Florence Nightingale and her wounded in the Crimea. At home, Fortnum picnic hampers have always been de rigueur fare at Derby Day, Eton-Harrow cricket matches or an Oxford-Cambridge boat race. Dickens praised Fortnum's provender, and Benjamin Disraeli, after a hard day in Parliament, was met by his wife with "a pie from Fortnum and Mason's and a bottle of champagne." "My dear," he winked, "you are more like...