Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys with a 900-year-old pedigree in Burke's Peerage (family motto: "Look Here for a Brave Spirit") on charges of trying to set fire to an outhouse near the dam. A wine importer, Christopher Knight, 23, was also hauled in, accused of trying to blow up the dam itself. On the same night, police also apprehended a car carrying two more young men and a giant poster reading GO HOME...
...fourth play in the tetralogy. This year it has opened its twelfth season by turning to the third and least often performed. But, despite the highly commendable Falstaff of Jerome Kilty, the gap is not really being filled: there is too much directorial and thespian ineptitude surrounding the fat knight...
...traditionally been heroes in the human imagination. Men still dream of themselves as Samson, tearing down the temple around the mocking ears, or as Lancelot, cutting down all challengers and incidentally winning the lady. But the commercialization of athletics and pervasive publicity have altered the image of the "parfit knight...
...white knight of black Africa is the "Omo man," who wanders from vil lage to village. Dressed in candent cot tons, he passes out sample boxes of Omo detergent, a fast-bubbling profit maker turned out by Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch combine that is the world's sixth biggest company. People grab up the giveaways, not only because each box top can be redeemed for ten more samples at the local Unilever-owned store, but also because the Omo man is plugged by radio ads that suggest he possesses supernatural powers. Say the commercials: "As a snail dies...
...Knight has no special training in Asian studies, but he has been studying Vietnamese eight hours a day for the past two weeks. He will leave for Vietnam in about three weeks