Word: urs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most!" bounced Bandleader Meyer Davis in a ditty to come out by, as Anne Ford, 22, youngest daughter of Henry Ford II, made her debut four years ago. For the last few months the boy that Anne's been digging the most is ur bane Wall Street Stockbroker Giancarlo Uzielli, 31, whose mother is a Rothschild. Gianni has been seeking a Vatican annulment of his first marriage to French beauty Anne-Marie Deschodt, now wed to nouvelle vague Film Director Louis Malle. Though both are Catholics, Anne and Gianni have decided not to wait any longer. They will...
...Level XV (9834 B.C.), Makor was a six-family settlement of happy hunters dwelling in a cozy cave and rejoicing in their primal innocence. Ur, the twinkle-eyed patriarch, romped with the kiddies, celebrated his hunting prowess in ecstatic bursts of epic poetry. But Mrs. Ur wanted a better way of life, moved the family into a nice new house down near the well, got everybody started on farming, free enterprise, philosophy, house building, domestication of the wild dog, sickle manufacturing, and the long agony of getting along with God. All in the space of three years...
...readiness. French embassy staffs in ten South American capitals busied themselves with last-minute details, while hard-eyed agents of the Sure-te kept all anti-Gaullists in Latin America under close scrutiny. The French cruiser Colbert, on which le grand voyage ur would reside during six of his 25 days abroad, had been refitted with special communications equipment, furniture from the French National Museums, and paintings by Rouault and Utrillo. In Buenos Aires a French-born cabinetmaker put the finishing touches on a 7-ft. 2-in. bed, while in Rio de Janeiro carpenters readied a pair of chairs...
...Ur-Game. In 1905, the year he graduated from Yale, William Champion read an article about an exhibit of African game boards at the Chicago Exposition of 1893 in which the author noted that Kalah "has served for ages to divert the inhabitants of nearly half the inhabited area of the globe." Fascinated by the failure of such a pandemic pastime to catch on in the U.S. and Europe, Champion began tracing its migrations and permutations...
...stakes of female slaves, and maharajahs using rubies and star sapphires as counters. He finally traced it back some 7,000 years to the ancient Sumerians, who evolved the six-twelve-sixty system of keeping numerical records." Out of this system of record keeping, the Sumerians developed this ur-game of board games...