Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stray dog. The dog was a fine-looking animal, a sleek, year-old abandoned Doberman pinscher that had been tipping over garbage cans, stealing food, mating with purebred bitches, howling to the whines of fire sirens. He was also fast and smart. Time after time, beginning in the summer of 1954, Inspector Roy L. McGowen drove out to the trailer camp area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside of two or three weeks. But not Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen: "Hell, whenever we thought we'd outthought...
...Britain, filling out endless bureaucratic forms is accepted as inevitably as a bad cold, a bus queue or a summer holiday ruined by rain. But every so often the worm turns, and victims everywhere enjoy a victory against the common bureaucrat. Recently Builder Eric Neate. constructing a small factory at Andover in Hampshire, routinely sent a blueprint of the factory to the County Planning Committee. Complying with committee orders that all factories must have flower beds. Neate's architect indicated a space for "shrubs." Back to Neate came the plan with a question: What kind of plants did Neate...
...student star in Much Ado About Nothing, Bing Crosby's dark-eyed spouse Kathy Grant, 24 (who used to be Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), established a scholarship for drama hopefuls at the University of Texas, which awarded her the degree of bachelor of fine arts at its 1956 summer session commencement...
...recession. And he travels--perhaps as widely, though not so often, as our Secretary of State. In May, for instance, he began a six week trip through Poland and Yugoslavia as part of a cultural exchange program, returned to the U.S. in June, and spent the remainder of the summer in South America. (A journal which he kept on this trip to Europe will be published next month by the University Press.) And just Tuesday he returned from a five day trip to Rhodes and some talks with leaders of the British Labor Party and economists from various underdeveloped countries...
After his retirement Kiphuth plans to proceed with work on three books. He also said he would try to maintain his summer swimming program for those preparing for the Olympics and other international competitions...