Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of hurling themselves at the army, the Juba rebels ambushed a lone sergeant out for an evening stroll, sawed off the top of his head, emasculated him, and stuck the amputated part in his mouth. The Arab garrison went berserk. Its troops exploded into the street, firing wildly at everything that moved. They cordoned off the black districts along the Nile, sent four-man assassination parties down every street, setting fire to the thatched native huts and shooting down their occupants as they emerged. Many residents, caught between the advancing vengeance squads and the army cordon, threw themselves...
...circle widened far in 1952. Harry Truman had decided not to run again, and the winner of most Democratic presidential preference primaries was Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, a lone-wolf liberal who was unacceptable to most national party leaders. Casting desperately around for someone else, they were drawn to the able, attractive Governor of Illinois. Stevenson was genuinely reluctant; the night before the national convention in Chicago, he sat up until 2 a.m. in Cook County Boss Jake Arvey's kitchen, suggesting alternative names and insisting that he wanted only to run for re-election as Governor...
European manufacturers stressed their growing teamwork in producing sophisticated equipment too costly for one country to devise alone. Britain and France shared an exhibit of their supersonic Concorde, taking advantage of the lone air-transport realm in which the U.S. lags, pointed proudly to 47 orders already on the books for the still unbuilt plane. The French government seized the occasion to order Sud-Aviation to build 13 more of its twin-jet Caravelles, and France's Nord-Aviation showed off the twin-engined Transall cargo plane that it has developed with five German firms...
...Lone Wolf. Now 53, the swarthy, hot-eyed, wavy-haired Celibidache has been bucking musical conventions since 1933, when he defied parental opposition and fled his native Rumania to study music in Paris and later, during the war years, at the University of Berlin. At the end of the war he took over the Berlin Philharmonic, rebuilt it singlehanded into an orchestra of international rank. In 1952, when Wilhelm Furtwangler was denazified and reinstated as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Celibidache drifted off to-pursue his lone-wolf existence...
...sharp-serving Charlie Hoevier, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Dave Benjamin (two) withstood four match points to take the third set 7-5 over Dartmouth's Bill Kirkpatrick. Richie Friedman (five) won the day's honors with a 6-0, 6-1 win over Jerry Dericks. Harvard's lone loss came in the number one doubles...