Word: raf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club had an impressive list of triumphs to its credit. With an average weight of 12 stone 8--176 pounds--the RAF men had an immediate 27-pound advantage a man. They had defeated Clare College of Cambridge, the Isis Boat Club of Oxford, and the Crowland Rowing Club handily...
Coach Brown called the race against Benson "our toughest." The men from the RAF covered the course in 7 minutes, 4 seconds, their second fastest time during the entire regatta. Harvard triumphed, however, by over a length in 6 minutes, 58 seconds, their second fastest time of the regatta also...
...second race of the day was scheduled at 5:30 p.m., some five hours after the contest with RAF Benson. During the afternoon, Coach Brown and his crew waited anxiously at a small house in the town two blocks from the railway station. Although comparative timings showed Harvard to be superior, Thames had an average weight of almost 13 stone. With the eyes and ears of the nation watching or listening to the BBC, anything might have happened...
Died. Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Sir John Nelson Boothman, 56, winner of the last Schneider Trophy air race (in 1931) by flying at 340.08 m.p.h. (then a record speed) in a Supermarine 56B, director during World War II of photo-reconnaissance for the RAF Coastal Command; in Stanmore, England...
...into the lap of chance. It moves the locale from the Left Bank of the Seine to the wrong side of the Rhone, where an impassioned Lyonnaise beauty (Simone Signoret), bored with an inadequate husband, meets "un homme, un vrai" in the form of an Italian truck driver (Raf Vallone). The lovers do not plot the husband's death, but they kill him anyway. After that, accidents keep following each other as if in mockery of Zola's thesis that the punishment must sprout from the seed of the crime...