Word: hay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year's team hardly ranked with the star-studded squads of the past. Notably absent were the top two collegiate players of last season: U.C.L.A.'s Lew Alcindor, who pleaded pressure of studies, and Houston's Elvin Hayes, who chose to sign a $440,000 contract with the pro San Diego Rockets instead of going to Mexico. The tallest man on the starting five was 6-ft. 8-in. Spencer Hay wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year...
...James's and she was one of Princess Margaret's closest companions, hardly a week went by without a report that Sharman Douglas, 40, was about to get married. Nobody quite corralled her then; now someone has. The groom-to-be is once-divorced Andrew Mackenzie Hay, a naturalized American from London. Why no engagement announcement? "She's too old for that," explains her mother...
...love, in the early novels (Crome Yellow, Antic Hay and Point Counter Point), it meant sex. And sex to Huxley was disgusting man at his most disgusting-something that he approached, as that prophet of passion D. H. Lawrence put it, with the "desperate courage of repulsion." The poem attributed to one of Huxley's characters in Ape and Essence is unmistakably in the author's voice...
...Thomas Mellon, then five years old, sailed from Londonderry for the U.S. To celebrate the anniversary, the family gave $250,000 to the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster to buy the old dwelling from its latter-day owner (who had thriftily converted it to a farm building for hay storage and pigs). Then they invited 400 guests, including Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, to a gala housewarming. The natives were delighted. Long envious of the outpouring of American sentimentality for the boozy, poetic republic to the south and of the stir created whenever a Kennedy...
...Triple Crown competition bore such undistinguished sobriquets as T.V. Commercial, Draft Card, Call Me Prince, Sir Beau and Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan Payson. Stage Door Johnny's sire is Prince John, his dam Peroxide Blonde...