Word: harrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent sudden spurts of violence, had put herself under the protection of Swiss police in the Palace Hotel at Montreux. Meanwhile, his 17-year-old son and heir Hussein, whom Talal had chased in frenzy from a bedroom in Paris two weeks ago, had returned to Britain and his Harrow schoolroom, to go back to his studies and to await the time when he himself might be called to Jordan's throne...
...Talal's question was still unclear. Abul Huda set up a three-man regency council to govern Jordan. The regency, Abul Huda said, would rule until Talal could return to his throne or until young Crown Prince Hussein becomes 18 next May. Hussein is now in school at Harrow (Churchill's alma mater) along with his cousin, King Feisal of Iraq...
Novelist Yerby has done some catapulting himself. Beginning with The Foxes of Harrow, and repeating the performance with five successive novels, Yerby has mounted a vast, turgid body of prose on his publisher's publicity engines. Each time it has made a bull's-eye on the bestseller lists...
...Mediterranean was politics"), a passable amateur oil painter and, at 60, still an avid outdoorsman (formerly football, track and cricket, now mostly shooting, skiing and fishing). He was born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the third son of the Fourth Earl of Caledon. After Harrow and Sandhurst, he wore "the brightest Sam Browne and boots in the British army," fought in World War I, served in India between the wars...
...London's Tory newspapers happily noted last week that the old school tie had come into its own again in Britain. In the outgoing Labor cabinet, only five out of 37 ministers had gone to Eton, Harrow or Winchester, only 15 to Oxford or Cambridge. With Old Harrovian Winston Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton, Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab...