Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After beginning the year with a relatively inexperienced team, including members who were playing the game for the first time, the club met encouraging success. Following an initial shut-out victory over M.I.T., the team was invited to the spring tournament in Bermuda, where two rapid shut-outs won them the American title over the defending champions from Amherst...
Busy Host. Next morning seven U.S. veterans of World War II, in Moscow for a reunion with Russian troops they had met when the two armies came together at the Elbe River, were ushered into the Kremlin for more of Khrushchev's camaraderie. He autographed their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...
...golf course used by the sahibs, which was on his property. But the romance faltered, and Lydia Hill, wearing a large diamond ring, returned to London and was killed in the blitz. "I am heartbroken," said the Sultan, who had followed her to Britain. A few days later he met reddish-blonde Rumanian Marcella Mendl and married her, explaining: "It was love at first sight...
...went in and came out a private. I don't get along with people-only slugs." In 1946 he hitchhiked across country to enter the University of Southern California on the G.I. Bill, got his doctorate in zoology at U.C.L.A. "My girl friend was studying embryology. We met over a pig embryo, and so we got married...
Villainous Christians. In the 19th century, when Townsend Harris, the first U.S. consul, was working out the first commercial treaty with Japan, the main difficulties he met concerned religious freedom for foreigners. Persecution of Japanese Christians was modified somewhat in 1871, when a Japanese diplomatic mission to the U.S. and Europe was greeted by a storm of indignation at the recent deportation of 60 Christian heads of families in the Nagasaki* area. In 1873 the shogunate removed the notices posted in every Japanese marketplace and on street corners threatening death to anyone who turned Christian or harbored Christians. But until...