Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named, in alphabetical order, for the year's fifth hurricane. U.S. meteorologists, always resourceful, have already picked names for the next 18 big tropical storms that may or may not materialize before the end of 1954: Florence, Gilda, Hazel, Irene, Jill, Katherine, Lucy, Mabel, Norma, Orpha, Patsy, Queen, Rachel, Susie, Tina, Una, Vicky and Wallis...
...Rachel Workman MacRobert was born American-in Worcester, Mass.-but marriage to a Scottish laird made her a loyal Briton by more than simple law. Her husband was Sir Alexander MacRobert, baronet and laird of Douneside and Cromar, Aberdeenshire, one of that band of hardy Scots who went forth to build the Empire, making Scotland proud and England great. When he died in 1922, he left a million-dollar estate; Lady MacRobert herself became a director of the British India Corp. Ltd., which he had founded...
Their eldest son, Sir Alisdair, took over his father's job as head of B.I.C. Two years later he was killed in an air crash. The family title passed to Rachel MacRobert's second son, Roderic. In May 1941 Sir Roderic, a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., was killed fighting for Britain over Iraq. Less than a year later, his younger brother, R.A.F. Pilot Officer Sir Iain MacRobert, 26, was reported missing in action over the North Atlantic. Stricken Rachel MacRobert made what she called "a mother's immediate reply." Enclosing a check...
...Died. Rachel, Lady MacRobert, 74, who gave her home and $180,000 to the R.A.F. after her three pilot sons were killed (one in a civilian plane crash and two in the R.A.F.), thus earned the title "Godmother of the R.A.F."; in Douneside, Scotland (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Todd Lincoln. Following six previous biographical novels, e.g., Lust for Life (Painter Van Gogh). The President's Lady (Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel), his latest has the birthmarks of another big bestseller. As Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises...