Word: ruggeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whenever she could take time from helping to run the ranch, Ruth Chartres sharpened her climbing skill. Last month, at 60, she decided that she was ready. In 17 hours, with two guides, she reached the rugged peak with ease. Back in the lowlands again, Mrs. Chartres announced that she...
Winston, mannerly and conscientious, was never late to meals. So when he failed to answer mess call one day last month, a search party was organized to comb the rugged heights of the Rock. They searched every crevice and called the ape loudly by name. No answer. Last week Gibraltar...
The Army's territory is ground-based antiaircraft weapons and surface-to-surface missiles of anything except extreme range. Army doctrine is that missiles are fine things, but they must be rugged, transportable, and easily concealed. Most important of all, they must be "G.I.-proof"; they will be under...
Returning to civilization from a fortnight's safari in Tanganyika, Army General (ret.) James Van Fleet, a rugged 63, brought out proof of a mighty trophy he bagged last month. Van Fleet's kill: a hefty rhinoceros whose lethal front horn measured 29 inches.
In a British film called Kind Hearts and Coronets, an admiral went down with his flagship, at full salute, unflinching as the waters closed over his beard. It was, of course, a British spoof of the proud Royal Navy, whose tradition of impenetrable reticence earned it the name "Silent Service...