Word: shetland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high school, his friends were heading for the mines. Now the Huffs and their two children, Robert Lee ("Sam") Huff Jr., 7, and Catherine Ann, 2, live in their own house in Rock Lake, W. Va. Last year Sam bought a 25-acre farm in nearby Farmington to raise Shetland ponies. "When he was a kid, we couldn't afford a pony," says his father, who lives on the farm. "Sam wants every kid in the area to have the chance to ride a pony...
...evening, but in these northern latitudes the sun was still above the horizon. The sea thundered against the great cliffs of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands; in lonely Footabrough inlet brilliant red and purple sea urchins bobbed in the swell along the shore. Out beyond the three-mile limit rode the Ukraina and two other trawlers of a Soviet fishing fleet...
...police station in the Shetland Islands capital of Lerwick, Teayn identified himself as an Estonian, begged political asylum because "they'll kill me if you send me back." In Parliament M.P.s stormed at this first invasion of the Shetland Islands since the days of the Spanish Armada, when the survivors of a far-ranging Spanish galleon are reputed to have taught the natives the patterns that are still used today in Fair Isle sweaters. Home Secretary Richard A. ("Rab") Butler told the House of Commons that three Soviet captains had landed at Lerwick and demanded that Teayn be handed...
...Office fired off a "strong protest" to Moscow, insisted that the Soviet government issue forthwith instructions "to ensure that there is no recurrence of any incident of this kind." But the indignation was more official than real. Erich Teayn will undoubtedly get political asylum. And no one thought the Shetland Islands were in any danger so long as there were canny crofters like Willie Fraser...
...three inches. Hurrying to claim his $1,000, he arrived at the station in the midst of a swarm of lawsuits from angry property owners. Apparently well content with this harvest of ill will, Don Burden moved ahead with his next gimmick: a "Lucky Phone Number" contest with genuine Shetland ponies as prizes. Crowed Burden: "I'm going to rock this market like it's never been rocked before...