Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complained. The man who fashioned this dramatic political triumph for Britain's Conservatives sports the languidly aristocratic look and the offhandedly arrogant air of a lordly old Tory of the style of Wellington and Disraeli. But behind the elaborately careless Edwardian manner that provokes both cheers and jeers for "Supermac" and "Macwonder," Harold Macmillan maintains a superbly efficient mastery of the political art of the practical. For all his proud Tory brows and mustache, Macmillan possesses an agile intelligence and free-ranging historical imagination that have enabled him to adjust cheerfully to the limits of Britain's present...
Refill. In Wellington, New Zealand, an anonymous blood donor called on Dr. John Mercer to donate a pint, was pronounced anemic, left with a pint more blood than when he arrived...
...London was talking about the revolt of the 20-year-old Guardsman of No. 1 Company, Coldstream Guards,* who bore the appropriate name of Victor Footer. He steadfastly denied that he had intentionally kicked the woman, even though she was "sniggering" at him. But he was marched off to Wellington Barracks and charged with "irregular conduct while on sentry-go" and with being "extremely idle"-a brigade term used to cover anything unbecoming a guardsman. By the time Footer got his ten days CB (confinement to barracks), he was a national hero...
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...Quixote to explain his investment philosophy (" 'Tis the part of a wise man not to venture all his eggs in one basket"), but he keeps all his sales eggs in one basket by having I.D.S. sell all five funds itself, a practice unique among investment companies. ¶ The Wellington Fund, of Philadelphia, is a balanced fund with assets of $925 million and 275,000 stockholders. Launched in 1929, it is still run by President Walter Morgan, one of the founders, also has a second fund (Wellington Equity Fund), with assets of $41 million. Wellington topped all the funds...