Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McLean, Va. a British teacher evolved a whole new science program for the Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said...
...Democrats were met in Chicago, said Clement, to plan for the happy hour when the "party of privilege and pillage passes over the Potomac in the greatest water-crossing since the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea." The evacuation "will be an astronomer's dream of shooting stars, for this trek will have generals to the right of them, generals to the left of them, and generals in front of them as these old soldiers fold their tents and just fade away." Clement conjured up florid images of Eisenhower, a genial, glamorous and affable general who had joined...
...floor, arranged them into armies before the rain-splattered windows. As his grandfather watched, eight-year-old David Eisenhower proceeded to wage the Battle of Gettysburg, ended 93 years before as the rain fell on the blood-drenched field and on Lee's army, in retreat toward the Potomac. Former General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower gave young David no professional advice. Cracked Press Secretary Jim Hagerty: "The President lets David fight his own battles...
...Undaunted by a length-and-a-quarter loss to Yale in the Carnegie Cup race on the Housatonic River Cornell's crew came back on the choppy waters of the Potomac to lick the Elis by a scant 3 ft. in the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges...
Harvey Love's heavies, second to the Tigers by about a length and two-thirds in the morning qualifying round, never seriously figured in the final, and trailed winner Cornell, Yale, Penn, and Princeton. Winning time was 6:10.0 over the 2,000 metre Potomac course...