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Word: hollingtonian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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...sight of the nostalgic crowd on the Horse Guards Parade when its engine began to cough and sputter. Losing altitude rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken Spitfire shot in, flaps down and wheels up, narrowly missed an oak tree, flattened on the grass and skidded 60 yards to a stop in the outfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Last Spitfire | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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