Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat, the monster lay doggo for more than 1,000 years. At any rate, the people who lived near the loch did not think it worth reporting. Since most Scottish lochs, they believed, had water kelpies, why shouldn't Loch Ness have one? His Grace the Duke of Portland noted in 1885 that his ghillies were quite familiar with a "horrible great beastie" in Loch Ness...
Money Talks. In Portland, Ore., Lawson McCall, the governor's executive secretary, got up to speak, popped a cough drop into his mouth, noticed five minutes later that he was sucking a penny...
...behind the kind of doors invariably described as "closed." This looked just like a man lining up votes (New Hampshire will have the nation's first 1952 presidential primary, in March). Taft, nevertheless, kept on saying that he has not decided whether to run. Then, standing before a Portland Republican club, he made what sounded like an announcement: "If Republicans get out [and work], there isn't any doubt of my election." When the applause and laughter .subsided, Bob Taft quickly got back on the maybe train by indicating that it was just a slip, a carryover from...
...Portland, Ore., photographers gathered to record the second birthday of Nicholas Delano Seagraves, first great-grandchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Young Nicholas, a husky 30-pounder, obliged by mounting a one-eared toy donkey and flashing a smile that had more than passing resemblance to great-grandmother Eleanor. "He loves to eat," said his mother, the former "Sistie" Dall, "and there isn't anything he doesn't like. He has all the teeth he's supposed to have, but I don't know just how many that...
...qualifying heat of motorboating's classic Gold Cup race at Seattle last week, Driver Orth Mathiot barely managed to make the minimum 65 m.p.h. speed in his blue-grey Quicksilver, a sleek, new, 31-foot hydroplane. Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h...