Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...external evidence of fateful activities. Shortly after 10:30 one night early last week, an official car, preceded by a noisy motorcycle escort, shot out of the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon, official Parisian residence of France's Premiers. Instantly, the shoal of reporters who were keeping a round-the-clock watch on the final agonies of the Fourth Republic set off in hot pursuit. As they left (in chase after a decoy), a slim, white-haired man whose features were drawn with fatigue slipped quietly out the back door of the Hotel Matignon and got into another...
...told the plane attendant that he was carrying a sick man; the attendant saw one passenger in dark clothes, and on a cot or boards, "what looked like a person covered completely with a blanket or canvas." When Murphy landed back at Tamiami, he was apparently alone. Estimated round-trip air time for that type of plane from Florida to Monte Cristi Airport on the north coast of the Dominican Republic...
...years fought an amiable but unremitting war to drive out the Sassenach. In 1942 he was jailed for not submitting to the English draft-not because it was a draft, but because it was English. After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical...
Among the world's major airlines, one of the fastest growing is a line whose apt symbol is a flying kangaroo and whose long hops take it from Australia clear round the world. In barely ten years, Australia's Qantas* has grown from a pouch baby into the world's ninth biggest international carrier, traveling some 15 million miles annually with 167,350 passengers. Last week Qantas was poised for still another leap. To Lockheed Aircraft went orders and options for six big Electra turboprop transports costing $15 million, 75% of which will be financed...
...Sputnik and the crisis in American education have done their work to sober up the traditional week of reckless abandon, when the "old grads" return to Cambridge, and to the "bright college days" of ten, twenty-five, or fifty years ago. Being a Harvard alumnus has become a year-round...