Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven years and 70 letters passed. Breda, a country milkmaid in the County Kerry village of Lispole, a speck on the map not far from Tralee, wrote of raising a greyhound, of playing a few parts on the stage at Killarney, of hoping some day to teach Frank the hornpipe. Frank, who was now an arc welder, wrote that he had sold his 1941 automobile, cashed in his war bonds and was setting aside $80 a month until he had enough for an airplane trip to County Kerry...
...Mountain, In Plain. The struggle pits guerrillas of the out-of-power Liberal Party against the troops and military police of the Conservative government. On the map, the guerrillas hold a third of the country, but their third, the rolling, grassy eastern llanos, is thinly populated. In the llanos, 5,006 irregulars commonly ambush and cut down invading government troops and steal their arms. The guerrillas themselves are targets of futile bombing...
...squabbling up to the point of divorce talk, she would like her money back. As for Brown, she added, it is time he learned that he "can't go around marrying nice girls without giving them some affection and consideration ... It was I who put him on the map. When Miss Davies married him, who do you think the papers had to call to find out who in heaven's name he was? Me, of course...
...TIME snarled a halyard. The present British Union Jack dates only from 1801, when the saltire of St. Patrick was added. For its map, TIME chose the Betsy Ross flag, rather than any of the various standards actually carried, as a symbol of what the Revolutionary troops were fighting...
Arturo Toscanini, 85, had his summer all mapped out, and the map called for a long rest in Italy. A methodical man, Conductor Toscanini settled down to it three months ago : he spent most of his time in his beloved Milan, varying his routine with short visits to his villa on cool Lake Maggiore. Last week - summer plans drastically revised- Toscanini was back in Manhattan and at work...