Word: devon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scottish Lowlanders employing litigation as a modern substitute for clan feuds, Welshmen thinking more about "minstrels, ash trees and scansion" than anything else, Cornish gypsies habitually "poovin' the grays" (pasturing their horses at night in somebody else's field). At the Hare and Hounds in Chip-shop, Devon, the customers like to sing hymns while they drink, and one night, they moved over to the church and helped out the choir. "A good time was had by all," the pub keeper told Hillaby, "including, I imagine, the Lord." After so much local color, the author was only mildly...
MAME cavorts in her inimitable style, with Janis Paige playing Auntie in North Tonawanda, N.Y., Aug. 4-9; Wallingford, Conn., Aug. 11-23. Elaine Stritch stars in Hyannis, Mass., Aug. 11-16; Edie Adams in Devon, Pa., Aug. 11-23. The musical is also on view in Brunswick, Me., Aue. 18-30: Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 5-17; and Charlotte...
...team then journeyed to Devon, Fla., and took a pair of games from Stetson University, 7-2 and 6-5. George Lalich won the first game with relief help from Gus Crim, and Ray Peters got credit for the second as Bob Lincoln and Robert Dorwart pitched the later innings...
...rule as the arbiter of taste-until, with the Puritan revolution, he probably landed in prison and eventually an obscure grave. Plentiful evidence of his flamboyant wit and stagecraft can be seen in an exhibit of 119 drawings of stage sets, props and costumes from the Duke of Devon shire's collection at Chatsworth, currently on display at Washington's National Gallery...
...Bucket Brigade. As consternation spread in the coastal counties of Devon and Cornwall, Prime Minister Wilson set up a ministerial-level emergency committee to coordinate local and national measures, named it "Operation Canute," after the 11th century English king who ordered the waves to recede-and got dunked. When all hopes of salvaging the tanker and its remaining cargo died, Wilson ordered several flights of fighter-bombers to zero in on the Torrey Canyon, then headed for his vacation retreat on the oil-threatened Scilly Isles to watch the action. For three days, the planes plastered the Torrey Canyon with...