Word: loch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sceptre looked good-from the clean curve of her underbody to the long, sharp sweep of her bow. But just eight months after lucky gold sovereigns were tossed into molten lead and her keel was cast on the shore of Scotland's Holy Loch, Britain's yare challenger for the America's Cup also looked a slow boat. In a dozen tune-up races with an elderly twelve-meter trial horse, Evaine, the gleaming Sceptre had been beaten every time. Last fortnight as Sceptre was hauled out of the water for inspection and checking, squalls of criticism...
sail ryve your guts; the Loch Ness...
...Only 20 yards from the wire, Devon Loch, Queen Mother Elizabeth's big brown gelding, had England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree practically put away. "Devon Loch wins," said the bulletin that went out on press association wires, but then: "Cancel! Cancel!'' Suddenly Devon Loch had slipped and fallen. The unexpected winner: a ioo-to-7 long shot named E.S.B. (for its sire, English Summer, and dam, Bider...
...corner of the tarmac where an R.A.F. Hastings transport plane was parked. Already in custody beside the Hastings were three other Cypriot clerics, including Kyprianos Themistok-leous Kyriakides, Bishop of Kyrenia. At 4:30 p.m. the Hastings took off for Kenya, where the Cypriots were transferred to H.M. Frigate Loch Fada, which set out for the Seychelles Islands, a British crown colony in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles east of Kenya, and just south of the Equator. Here the archbishop will be confined to a small bungalow, 1,800 feet above the sea, which Lady Addis, wife...
...took the stage for a 90-minute CBS-TV show and, after a shaky start, proved that talent has no need of big production numbers. Coward, born with scarcely any singing voice, doesn't so much sing a song as suggest that he is singing one. His best: Loch Lomond and Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Mary Martin was brilliantly funny in a scene from Madame Butterfly, and happily belted out a long-but not long enough-succession of Anglo-American tunes...