Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tort Churchill? Never heard of it. Do you mean Churchill with the big cigar...
...shot as if the tournament had begun. He has a horror of what he calls the Sunday golfer's gravest sin: "Just hitting the ball without thinking." Like cigar-chomping Walter J. Travis, golf's hero of half a century ago, Hogan likes to say that he never hits a careless shot...
Fighting trypanosomiasis by attacking the flies with insecticides has never been wholly effective. Some flies always survived and quickly re-established the fly population. As a result, the whole great African area (including Kenya, Uganda and Sudan) has only about 16 million head of scrubby, inferior cattle. Even these hardy beasts often die of the disease. David Rees-Williams, British Undersecretary for Colonies, says of Antrycide: "It will enable Africa to carry much more cattle than Argentina, where there are now about 33 million head...
...short that oilmen worried about a .return to rationing (during one cold spell, New York City had to beg oil from the Navy to keep its hospitals and schools warm). To stave off rationing, oilmen earmarked $5 billion for expansion in 1948-49 and worked as never before. Wildcatters roamed the U.S. far & wide, looking for oil in the most unlikely places...
...Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...