Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romantics. In Nottingham, England, an all-male committee of the city council unanimously declared they would not use sodium lighting in the downtown area because it was unflattering to women's complexions...
...taxes, and Maid Marian's mink coats have caused comment in the greenwood. There is a feeling that Robin has not been smart about the Communists, and Little John Acheson's foreign policy has caused fear for the future. Above all, Herbert Hoover is not Sheriff of Nottingham this year...
Fighting Trim. In Nottingham, England, Scottish Flyweight Champion Vic Herman found himself an ounce too heavy before he defended his title, reduced immediately by taking out his dental plate and its single tooth...
...sound reason and a noble spirit, and ruled benevolently over an unprepossessing tribe of humans called yahoos. A British stable owner named Frank Coton felt he had a near-Houyhnhnm in his eight-year-old gelding, Black Diamond. One day last week, he led Black Diamond clopping into a Nottingham movie theater (which had been cleared of yahoos); the horse, perspiring heavily, watched as a newsreel of 1952's Grand National Steeplechase was run off twice...
...theory: "If humans can be educated by watching films, can't horses too? I think so. Who knows? He might feel like imitating Teal [this year's Grand National winner] after he's seen it." But Black Diamond was not Houyhnhnmly enough. In South Nottingham's Point-to-Point Steeplechase on Easter Monday, Black Diamond placed fifth...