Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were confiscated), plus several items of jewelry which she had reported stolen the previous week. Released after six hours of questioning, she could only sputter: "I am furious." Later, she told newsmen that she hadn't bothered to report the jewels' recovery because the main item, a set of diamond pins on a chain, valued at $5,714, was still missing. As for the money, she thought she had a right to do with it as she pleased: her dress designs had brought France more dollars than most French businesses...
...Madison for the unveiling of a scale model of the U.S.S. Wisconsin, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy recalled that he was once all set to enter the U. of Wisconsin law school: "I was all signed up. But somehow I got tangled up with the Navy and here I am. I never would have been worth a darn as a lawyer anyway...
...Cleveland, 1948 Olympics Half-Miler Mai Whitfield legged the 880 in 1 :49.2, to equal the world's record set by Britain's Sidney Wooderson...
...signal gun for the first of the finals, her boat began heeling over in the wind. Shouting orders to her crew, Toni set the tiller carefully, shrewdly tacked upwind around the other boats and forged ahead. Toni's tactical philosophy: "The wind that comes off another boat's sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat...
Explained Steinfeld's President Harold Steinfeld: "I think it is good business judgment on the part of both parties and should set a new high standard of clean, unselfish business competition." Said Jacome's President Alex Jacome, who was getting one of the best sites in town: "It couldn't happen anywhere but Tucson...