Word: jock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barracks somewhere in Scotland's dour landscape, a battalion of Highlanders is waging a pretty grim peace under the command of Colonel Jock Sinclair...
Despite its current appellation as the "Jock" House, Winthrop remains one of the most versatile yet homogeneous houses at Harvard...
...John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer...
Push for Pushcart. Whitney's grandfathers were Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of State John Hay, and William Collins Whitney, a street-railway tycoon and multimillionaire. Thanks principally to Grandfather Whitney, Jock Whitney is endowed with a fortune of some $60 million (which will tide him through the London embassy's estimated excess expenditure of $50,000 a year above the ambassador's $27,500-a-year salary and allowances), but he has always managed to combine the graces of a patrician upbringing with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York...
Gone from the Nazis. In World War II Jock Whitney was a public-relations and liaison officer (colonel) in the Air Corps, an agreeable berth that was disrupted one day during the invasion of Southern France when he headed his jeep beyond the American positions and got captured. When the Nazis packed him off north in a boxcar along lines that the Allies were bombing, coolheaded Jock Whitney regaled his fellow P.W.s with a running commentary-"Now they're peeling off to come in! God, it's lovely! Now the first one is leveling off!" During...