Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brass-blonde chignon, Dorothy Lawlor's busy brain had cased all the angles. She had been married at 15, divorced at 19. She had two kids, no man, and a flock of debts. Now she was 27, and checking hats in Johnny Shields's Midway Inn, Valley Stream, Long Island (pronounced "Long Guyland...
...Dirt in the Blue Grass. From Daytona Beach one gallant telegraphed: "Do nothing till you hear from me. Might go as high as 12 or 13Gs." Then a man from Lexington, Ky. burned up the long distance wires, begging Dorothy to hold off until he could get up to Valley Stream. He telegraphed a $100 down payment. Dorothy described him as a horse breeder named Arthur Howard, said he was a boyish 42 and almost six feet tall. "He's got oodles of do-re-mi,'' she added softly...
...worst outbreak of infantile paralysis in the state's history has struck down 195 people since Jan. 1; the worst previous record for the same period was last year's 73 cases. Hardest hit was the Rio Grande Valley...
Deepest. The Pure Oil Co., which has been drilling an oil well in Wyoming's Wind River Valley, brought in a producing well at 14,309 ft., a record depth. (Previous record for a producing well: a 14,000-ft.-deep well in Grady County, Okla.) In a 41-hour test, the well flowed 1,413 barrels. The news sent Pure Oil's stock up 4½ points to 40 in one day on the New York Stock Exchange...
When the sunlight ebbed from the courtyard, "the old master of the house decided that it was time to conduct the bridal pair to the nuptial chamber" - the bathhouse where "a long, wide couch" was strewn with dried lavender, violets and lilies of the valley...