Word: ringwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...
...Herald Tribune, was much miffed by the wartime atmosphere. Wrote he: "... Pretentious folk are busy with cosmic urges which only tomorrow will be remembered as humorous follies and bumbling with skirmishes with destiny which next week will be recalled as yesterday's hysterical giggles." He predicted that Edward Ringwood Hewitt's savory volume of reminiscences, Those Were The Days (TIME, Dec. 27) "will be read and remembered when the apologies of current admirals and the postured stompings and poutings and cries of 'Me, I'm the bravest one' of war correspondents have been baled...
...summer, on their farm at Ringwood, N.J., they built a 250-foot slide from the top of the orchard across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...
Other ships fell victim as the cruise continued: the Holmwood, Notou, Ringwood, Triona, Triadic, Triaster, Vinni. Most male prisoners were jammed into the Tokyo Maru under machine-gun guard. Once 132 of them were kept under hatches for three days without fresh water, bedded down with a herd of pigs. Their food was black bread, raw sausage and bacon. Aboard the Manyo Mam the women fared little better. Fifteen of them were crowded into a 12-by-10-foot cubbyhole below the water line, with no water for bathing, scanty food. Once they were allowed to go on deck...