Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Team No. 2 was Hillary, the beekeeper from Auckland, New Zealand, and Tenzing, the sinewy Asian whom Colonel Hunt named "the greatest Sherpa of them all." They dragged themselves up to 27,900 ft. and there, on a rocky ledge, they spent a gale-swept night in a ragged tent...
Dial M for Murder, rounded up and gave a tea party for 45 fellow old girls of the Diocesan High School of Auckland, New Zealand. Editorialized the London Times...
...which say they are not on the side of the United Nations at all, but are neutral in the fight. How ridiculous . . ." Then Taft took his general thesis one step further: "If we are able to disentangle ourselves from the U.N., we already have treaties with Australia and New Zealand, with Japan and the Philippines, and a very definite understanding with the French in Indo-China. I think we should [also] have a free hand to form a [military] alliance with the British [on] Far Eastern affairs . . . but not one in which they possess any final veto against our policies...
...Ceylon's (a lion grasping a sword), and concluded by the Royal Arms of England, borne by Montgomery of Alamein. Polity, law and religion-the triple stays of monarchy-were impressively represented in the persons of eight Prime Ministers (of Ceylon, Pakistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain), two Archbishops (York and Canterbury), and the Lord High Chancellor of England in full-bottomed wig and gown. Last came Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and then, with joyous fanfare of trumpets, Her Majesty, the Queen...
While he was still an adolescent, his father's farm had begun filling orders from all over the world. The New Zealand government sent for 60,000 pupae of the Cinnabar moth, hoping the caterpillars might eat up the country's ragwort weed. The Newmans supplied the pupae and the moths did well in New Zealand. They even ate some ragwort. But eventually, New Zealand birds ate most of the Cinnabars...