Word: tieing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the polite pair dropped in uninvited at the home of M. le Comte d'Exelmans, the fat one was courtesy itself. He apologized profusely for having to tie up the count's wrists, and before departing with the family safe's 1,500,000 francs' worth of jewelry, he turned to the countess with a deep bow. "Chere Madame," he said, "if perhaps I have here some family jewels especially dear to your heart, pray tell me and you shall keep them...
...slaughter their cows, in time of famine prefer to die of starvation beside their impassive bovines. Each animal has its own name and every Ruandan dreams of at least two cows in his pasture. The cows are now increasing at the rate of 120,000 a year. They tie up the best land, hamper the natives in raising food crops. "Except the king,"*runs a popular saying, "nothing ranks above...
Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was plainly reaching for political respectability. Clad in diplomatic cutaway, silk tie and striped trousers, he had clinked champagne glasses earlier this month with Warren R. Austin, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, during Austin's Caribbean tour. Before Austin left the Dominican Republic, the 400-year-old University of Santo Domingo gave him an honorary degree...
Hearstling Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, who is a natty dresser, named 1950's Worst Dressed Men of the World. Top of the list: Prince Aly Khan, for going to the races in yellow socks, orange shoes and a green tie. A close sec ond: Texas' Senator Tom Connolly (for looking "like a country bumpkin" while heading for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee). Runners-up: Manhattan Socialite Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (for not buying a new hat "in the last twelve years"); Wrestler Gorgeous George (chiefly for his peroxide curls...
...rough, tough Toronto Maple Leafs seemed to have the game sewed up. Then, with 57 seconds to play, a Montreal forward slipped through the Toronto defenses and fired a goal to tie the score. If the Maple Leafs were ruffled by the turn of events-the game ended 3-3-they hid their chagrin behind the masks of dyed-in-the-wool pros.. So did their boss, Constantine Falkland Karrys Smythe...