Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decentralization. In Raleigh, N.C., when police started to give Robert L. Williams a ticket for driving his newly purchased used car without a license, the headlights fell off, the trunk lid fell off, and the bumper fell...
...Island and headed for New York's big Idlewild International Airport. The plane, a cargo transport, had left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. seven hours before with 13,700 Ibs. of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and lingerie. It had made a routine flight, with fuel stops at Charleston, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C., and despite the murk it seemed about to make an equally routine landing-the ceiling hung at 500 feet and visibility was a mile and a half...
...John's University basketball team, in the upset of the year, over Kentucky, 64-57; at Raleigh, N.C. The victory put underdog St. John's in this week's N.C.A.A.-championship semifinals. Other regional winners: Big Ten Champion Illinois over Duquesne, 74-68; Big Seven Champion Kansas over St. Louis, 74-55; Santa Clara over Skyline Champion Wyoming...
...discovered that the chain binding the black Raleigh bike to a rack in Moors Hall basement had been sawed through. The janitor informed her that the bike had been confiscated, along with several other unclaimed ones stored in the basement and had been auctioned off in Cabot Hall November...
...English"; she determinedly kept her people out of continental entanglements and gave them 30 years of peace in which to develop their resources-industrial, commercial, maritime and artistic. Then began a surge to empire: Elizabeth's privateers, Drake and Frobisher, singed the beard of the Spaniard, Sir Walter Raleigh planted the royal standard in the forests of Virginia, and England's gallant little fleet repulsed the Spanish Armada. Elizabeth queened it over an age crowded with greatness, which nourished such figures as Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. She was the strongest queen and the most vital woman ever...