Word: parramatta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character who loses all his marbles but one is Arthur Brown, a shambling, boneless, orange-haired simpleton who works for 50 years as a grocer's boy in Sarsaparilla (a coyly satirical name for the Sydney district of Parramatta). Arthur is seen by his neighbors at the end of Terminus Road as a "dill," a "no-hoper," a "loopy," a "nut," a "mophret" (hermaphrodite), and "a dirty old man." The reader sympathizes with these brisk Aussie judgments; Arthur is indeed hard to follow as he mumbles about the place goggling at the dreary scenery or polishing that glass marble...
...Yacht Club, waiting for a foreign challenger to win it away from the U.S. The British have tried 15 times, the Canadians twice. Their combined efforts have cost at least $25 million, and all have failed. Last week another nation threw down a challenge. Along the banks of the Parramatta River, outside Sydney, throngs of excited Australians cheered the launching of a sleekly handsome 12-meter yacht that may give U.S. sailors their sternest test...