Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows can be dull if you're not really old enough to appreciate the fine points. Charles Race, 21 months, is not really old enough. So he quickly lost interest in England's annual Badminton Horse Trials and began wandering. Pretty soon he spotted the mud-covered straw that was spread around because of the rain and got a great idea. He tossed a handful of the gooey stuff at a kind-looking lady standing near by. The kind-looking lady turned out to be Queen Mother Elizabeth. She was surprised and laughed politely, but she didn...
...tens of thousands of Americans had German measles, and the vast majority had caught it willy-nilly without the fun of a party. "It comes in waves, two to four years apart," said Chicago's Health Commissioner Samuel Andelman. "When it starts, it's like fire in straw." The fire had spread from New England, down the Eastern seaboard and westward to the Continental Divide. It has not yet hit the West Coast in full force. It will...
...high places where the air is pungent with eucalyptus. Their packs held only a few necessities: a knife to carve a walking stick, binoculars clinking against a canteen cup, sandwiches. By contrast, the newcomers in the party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough to fatten all the pheasant in the heather. New and old hands alike, 85 in all, were part of California's famed Sierra Club, out for a day's hike through the mountains. Their leader, a gangling Sierra surveyor, bluntly laid down...
...that he keeps his honor safe inside himself: "I believe that in America, I will be washed clean." But his obsessive hankering after America goes unjustified. The film even suggests that Stavros' monomania is sheer materialism. On the ship he throws away his fez, pledging to buy himself a straw boater in the new land. Was it then greed that drew him to the United States? Even his concern for his family does not balance the absence of higher motives...
...yard freestyle, Crimson junior Dave Abramson looks like a good bet to conquer his Eli opposition. Yale's Joe Hill and Lynn Straw need about 5:15 to churn the distance, not fast enough if Abramson has a good day. The Crimson junior also has a chance for a first at the 200-yard distance...