Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wintle brooded restlessly, concluded that Nye had somehow done his sister and himself out of the money. Lawyers told him he had no case in law. Undaunted, Wintle took action. He called up Nye, told him he was "Lord Norbury," and asked Nye to come to an apartment in Hove. Nye went. As 71 -year-old Law yer Nye related it in court last week...
Whether writing of the 1490s ("It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour . . . the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil") or of a convoy in the 1940s ("Around the columns is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy"), Sam Morison could write...
MICKEY MOUSE first hove into public sight at the wheel of a steamboat rushing round a bend of what appeared to be the Mississippi River. As he swung in for a landing, Mickey tootled a tune-oom-pah-pah, with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete...
...trek (of 14,450 miles) about Australia, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh drove out into the countryside from the bustling city of Perth and ate a leisurely picnic lunch. Two days later, leaving in her wake the cacophonous cheers and steam whistles, the Gothic hove westward across the Indian Ocean, bound for the Cocos Islands and Ceylon...
...Hove, England, Mrs. Clement Attlee, famed for chauffeuring her ex-Prime Minister husband during his campaign travels, was fined ?1 ($2.80) for leaving her Humber Hawk parked without lights for nine hours and "obstructing" a local street...