Word: three-year-old
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NUTS; THE GREAT FIASCO, cried a rude Daily Mail banner headline. It referred to the Labor government's grandiose, three-year-old project of planting a vast acreage of groundnuts (peanuts) in the bush wastes of Tanganyika, East Africa. The nuts were supposed to yield margarine and add extra calories to Britain's meager diet. Last week, Labor bigwigs were reading the first summary of the project's progress by the Overseas Food Corp., which the government created to run the groundnut scheme. It was a most embarrassing report...
...event the same day. The Post photograph showed a cigarette drooping gun-moll style from the left side of Princess Margaret's mouth. There was only one thing wrong with this exclusive shot: it was a fake. The Post had reached into its files, pulled out a three-year-old picture, doctored it to fit the news, and run it without caption or explanation. Said Executive Editor Paul Sann, who thought up the idea: "We haven't had any kicks-not even from the princess...
...more important race than its purse value suggests. For 13 years it has played a leading role in the annual horse-of-the-year award, and it has sometimes resuited in a race of the year (such as War Admiral v. Seabiscuit in 1938).* Last week's renewal of the sporting Special-by invitation as usual, for $15,000 winner-take-all-brought together the two speed demons of 1949's two leading stables: Calumet's four-year-old Coaltown and Greentree's three-year-old Capot...
...court wrote the standard ending: divorce granted. Deanna would get custody of three-year-old Jessica Louise...
Preventive. In Boston, police found three-year-old Billy McConnell wandering the streets, skipped their usual treatment for lost children after reading the note pinned to his jacket: "Please do not feed. Thank...