Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabia, searching out reinforcements bound for Turki. Jeep-borne Oman levies roamed everywhere, terrifying camel caravans. From a 40-foot-high Beau Geste-like tower of mud-brick reinforced with palm logs-containing storerooms for food, water and ammunition, and slotted for rifles-a young British major named Peter MacDonald was happily running the show...
...George MacDonald, last year's freshman captain, will also play. McInnis is high on MacDonald; "if a lefty is pitching against us, I may use Clasby and Butters in the outfield, and MacDonald behind the plate," he says...
Getchell's announcement brought a do-or-die rejoinder from across the ocean. R. S. "Sandy" MacDonald of Cambridge University stated that the English teams would be glad to pay their own way across this year. All was happy for a brief space, although American track men may have felt a bit miffed at a vision of John Bull, in scuffed spikes and moth-eaten persey, running against well-fed and well-outfitted local collegians...
...course, there was a joker. MacDonald made it plain that English teams would not be coming here, if the Americans would not reciprocate, in both 1954 and 1955. As it later turned out, the English were counting on the proceeds from both those meets to pay off the loans made to enable this year's trip...
SAMUEL COLLIN MACDONALD...