Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HUITT YARDLEY São Paulo, Brazil
Catnapers. In Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, thieves stole two 300-lb. jaguars from the municipal...
...visitors to the U.S., on hand and in transit at Eastertide, were a varied company. In age they ranged from Ireland's white-thatched, sprightly President Sean Thomas O'Kelly, 76, to Jordan's young (23), furnace-tested King Hussein. In geography and position they ranged from vest-pocket-sized Denmark's Premier and Foreign Minister, H. C. (for Hans Christian) Hansen, to vast Brazil's powerful, unbending War Minister and possible presidential candidate, Henrique Teixeira Lott. But for all their differences, they had one thing in common: all were friends...
...wrote the Harvard Crimson tolerantly, "to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland." The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap. When, at 10 o'clock one night, the Harkness bells clanged out "Bulldog, Bulldog," the results were more or less predictable. Frosh surged out of dormitories like beer from a sprung keg, and began pitching snowballs. Brawlers leaked over locked gates and through classroom buildings into the streets, made a token charge...
More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...