Word: loneliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trees in Hanover. New Hampshire, to tell the world that a college shivers beneath it. Visitors descending from the rim of hills need only follow this barren beacon to find the cloisters that are Dartmouth, and once there, to help them understand the uniqueness of the country's loneliest college...
...world's loneliest places is the Cocos Islands, a group of 27 coral islets whose tall coconut palms are fanned by the soft trade winds of the Indian Ocean midway between Ceylon and Australia. Until last week, one of the loneliest men there was its benevolent ruler: king John Clunies-Ross, a slim young (22) Briton who rules the 1,200 copra-gathering islanders under a 999-year charter granted by Queen Victoria to his great-greatgrandfather, Ross I, a Scot from the Shetland Isles, who settled there...
...LONELIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (238 pp.)-Kenneth Fearing-Harcourt, Brace...
...wife the places they had seen, the people they had met. Their conclusions: "We would be willing to live on almost any Polynesian island. We'd think ourselves lucky to be able to live on Tahiti or Rarotonga. We could enjoy a year or two on even the loneliest atolls. The inconveniences would be offset by the joyous life-patterns of the people who would share them with...
...Manhattan, ad agency Ruthrauff & Ryan, which is handling the campaign, was only mildly repentant, admitted that the "negative approach" may have been a mistake. Announcing the withdrawal of the second ad in the series (a freckle-faced, tearful boy described as "the loneliest kid on the block"), Ruthrauff & Ryan decided to accentuate the "positive, happy approach." The first "happy" ad: a picture of two smallfry embracing their father over the caption: "You'd give them the world if you could-this Christmas...