Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving in London as the sole American to join the West End version of last season's Broadway revue, A Thurber Carnival, Humorist James Thurber, 66, stated his canny reason for coming to Britain. "No one seems to die over here," said Thurber. "Every time they try to hold a memorial service, the corpse writes in to say he's feeling fine. In America, love after 40 is obscene, work after 50 is unlikely, and death before 60 is practically certain...
After belittling items, picture and caption re J.F.K.'s senatorial successor, Ben Smith, from the heterogeneous seaport of 25,000 hardy Americans, you conclude that "his sole experience in political office was as a city councilman and mayor of Gloucester." It's to laugh...
Enraged at this brazen invasion of his region, Tshombe accused the local U.N. troops in North Katanga of carelessness or complicity, for Gizenga's soldiers obviously had traveled through dozens of miles of the "neutral zone," which Tshombe had agreed to leave under the sole protection of the U.N. forces themselves. The U.N. urged Tshombe not to retaliate, but planes of Tshombe's little air force, manned by Belgian pilots, flew off to strafe the enemy with machine guns and hand-hurled bombs. In this first use of air power in the Congo crisis, ground fire from...
...calculus, German, Chinese, English), worked 30 hours a week in the university library, took his classmates for "$20 or $30 a month" playing bridge, and kept a big bag of dried apricots beside his dormitory bed. That spring, embittered by his failure to capture the chemistry department's sole scholarship, Keys signed on as an oiler aboard the President Wilson, bound for China, and quickly dispensed with nutritional niceties. "The diet was mainly alcohol," he says. "I don't remember eating anything." Back again at Cal, Keys switched to economics, graduated in two years, went to work...
Harvard handed the Eagles their sole defeat of the season in last Monday's 2-1 thriller. Only four days ago, however, B.C. posted a relatively easy 6-4 win over the same St. Lawrence team that beat the Crimson in overtime before Christmas vacation, and this time the conclusion suggested by juggling comparative scores is the correct one: tonight's contest in anybody's. The only sure winners will be the more than 2000 fans jammed inside Watson...