Word: wight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rack fashion house that Anne has long favored over the royal dressmakers, had each sewn into the hem a lock of her hair. Tucked into the bridal bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and stephanotis was "something old" -a sprig of myrtle grown on the Isle of Wight from a sprig of Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet-and a bit of white heather for good luck...
...everything in between. He was trapped into an exhausted legend. Overworked and, at times, filled with drugs, Hendrix continued to tour. The Experience eased into a slow, steady decline that ended in 1970 with Hendrix's drug-linked death, one month after a listless performance at the Isle of Wight...
Encouraged by the tests with their models, the British researchers recently equipped a 200-ton cargo vessel with their super rudder. Tested off the Isle of Wight, the vessel ran circles around other ships of its size: it could turn on its own axis, stop in only seconds, and effectively operate with its rudder turned up to an angle of 90°. The British scientists concede that the device will probably not work as spectacularly with heavier ships. Their calculations show, however, that a 250,000-ton tanker should be able to turn completely around in only about...
...over a 50-minute Cabinet meeting and pondered the legislative priorities that would become the framework of the Queen's speech at the opening of Parliament this week. Then, at the helm of his sloop Morning Cloud, he competed in a 60-mile race around the Isle of Wight...
...album cover (a self-portrait in oils, blue-nosed and rather grotesque) makes clear, this is an album primarily about where Bob Dylan has been. Like a Rolling Stone and, at long last, The Mighty Quinn, both recorded live at the Isle of Wight concert last year with The Band, are swinging mementos of the great years before Dylan's retirement in 1966. Even new songs like It Hurts Me Too and Living the Blues recall the sturdy timbers of John Wesley Harding and the country leisure of Nashville Skyline...