Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some unaccountably stayed put. Sample: Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson Henjes. Last March, when she was still Maud Stevenson and yachtsman Robert H. Henjes was only her "boyfriend" (her own term), she & he tiffed. The tiff wound up in a Long Island police station where Maud, stripped down to brassiere and half slip, bit and kicked a cop like nobody's business...
...irate Albanians, was bitten by "a centipede of some horror" in Greece, lived "on rugs and ate with gypsies . . . and performed frightful discrepancies for 8 days" in the Balkans. Like most Englishmen abroad, he grumbled continually. The Bosporus was "the ghastliest humbug going," Corfu was a "tittletattle, piggy-wiggy island," and Venice was filled with palaces, pigeons, poodles, pumpkins, and-"to keep up the alliteration"-pimps...
...acres in the ranch's four divisions make it bigger than Rhode Island. Between the northern and southern points of the ranch there is a month's difference in the seasons...
Yesterday was a pretty cold day from every angle for track Coach Jaakko Mikkola. Six sets of Crimson relay teams spent the afternoon in Briggs Cage looking at the backs of Rhode Island State and Brown jerseys...
When the mile-relay groups hit the boards, Harvard again trailed, this time with Rhode Island State providing the front-runners. This test resulted in a closer race, with the Rams breaking into the lead at about the halfway mark...