Word: kirkpatrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fingers the leg action of a chicken scratching the ground. Despite such difficulties (experts figure that not one harpsichord player in a hundred had his Schnellen properly under control), the U.S. is in the grip of a major harpsichord boom, fostered by such players as Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti and the late great Wanda Landowska...
...underwater testing and 56,000 interviews with Dover-to-Calais travelers, a combined group of English, French and U.S. engineers and economists prepared to announce, in a $700,000 report, that a tunnel through the chalk strata between England and France was both technically and economically feasible. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, onetime head of the Foreign Office, and now co-chairman of the Channel Tunnel Study Group, indicated that the 36-mile rail tunnel under the Channel would cost over $300 million, could bring in $26 million in revenue annually...
...present plans, there would be no auto road; cars would be carried by rail because the cost of ventilating the tunnel for auto traffic would be too high. Despite the optimistic report, Kirkpatrick warned that there was at least an 18-month wait before anyone turned a shovel, because of the necessity of governmental approval...