Word: troop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tries to forget his passion for the golden-skinned Denise. This turns out to be un necessary for Sabrina conveniently goes crazy. But Hugh, too, has noted the tiger ish Denise, and Laird has to defend him self against various attempts at assassina tion, including one by a whole troop of Klansmen. Meanwhile he rebuilds the old Fournois estate and goes to the legislature on the vote of his Negro constituents. But he finds Reconstruction politics too hopelessly corrupt to play. In the end he loses all-except Denise...
...Maritime Commission's Marine Flasher docked in New York last week, some 300 passengers emerged sizzling. They promptly fired off a petition charging that the ship was, in effect, a floating flophouse. Yet the Maritime Commission made no move to withdraw the Marine Flasher or six similar troop-type ships from Atlantic passenger service. It knew that its ships were substandard but it kept them operating only because transatlantic ship space is so scarce...
Worn thin by 32 years of steady trampling (2500 persons troop up the steps daily in pursuit of intellectual stimulation), the "increasingly treacherous" marble steps inside Widener Library finally had their faces lifted last week...
...right thing. At a Girl Guide (Girl Scout) review in dark Basutoland, it was she who spotted a bus full of Guides kept well apart from the rest. Despite the anguished cries of officials, she promptly went over to talk to them. They were the Girl Guide troop from a leper colony. Next day everyone in South Africa knew what the Princess had done...
...Buckingham Palace, just as she might have in some U.S. Middletown, the heiress to the throne had her own troop of Girl Guides, the 7th Westminster Company, organized by children of Palace staffers. The Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber...