Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best shows on BBC television is a situation comedy called Till Death Do Us Part. Its protagonist is a sort of Everyslob, an odiously vulgar xenophobe named Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell). Every Monday night at 7:30, old Alf gets on and starts sputtering away. West Indian cricket players? "It's amazing how them sambos have picked this game up." The Labor government? "Right load of pansies, they are." Prince Philip? "Well, he's a different sort of Greek; he isn't one of your restaurant Greeks...
Leone scrutinizes with the same drawn-out fascination the territory where his hero moves. The florry sand, the green-feathery plains, the mountain rocks that look like rubble--each expanse whispers desolation. So does the town. Leone focuses on the white walls till the whole place seems bleached of life. The movie exults in barrenness. There are no comings and goings of common folk. The spot is without schools, churches, or community councils...
...Glad till our life ends
...Francis Skiddy von Stade Sr., 82, gentleman horseman and champion polo player, who kept up a lifelong interest in horses, helped set the rules and maintain the traditions in U.S. thoroughbred racing over half a century, notably as a member of the Jockey Club since 1935, and as president till 1955 of the Saratoga Racing Association; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...
...Frugging till Dawn. Nowhere is the Post hospitality more exquisite than at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach. "The only trouble with Palm Beach," cracked White House Aide Robert Kintner, "is that by the time you can afford it, you're too old to enjoy it." The resort enjoyed a considerable revival with the younger international set when John F. Kennedy, son of longtime winter residents, spent a couple of Christmas vacations 'there as President. Now younger socialites seek the more informal social life of Barbados, Hobe Sound, Nassau or Acapulco. Palm Beach is primarily a playground...