Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab refugees, primary education for 155,000 of their children. In Korea, the U.N. Reconstruction Agency has not only delivered immense amounts of food, fuel and machinery, but a team of British textile men who have taught their Korean spinners to speak English (with a Lancashire accent...
...monologues go on a shade too long. In minor roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder in too impenetrable an accent. Itch should have emerged on the screen as a fast, furious and funny comedy; at times it is all of these, but, continuously, none of them...
...Exchequer "Rab" Butler, Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, La bor Minister Sir Walter Monckton - returned, most of them with bigger pluralities. Eden himself carried his Warwick and Leamington constituency by 3,663 votes more than he had in 1951. "Thank you so much," said the Prime Minister, in clipped Oxford accent, to droves of well-wishers at the Shire Hall...
...Sicilian oil for the Sicilians," cry Communist posters. The Communist accent on oil not only caught the Demo-Christians by surprise, but also caught them divided. President Restivo had a good defense: American participation has been profitable for Sicilians. But the Fanfani men sent down to take over the campaign have let him use the argument only halfheartedly. Up in Rome, important Demo-Christians have a stake in keeping oil production in the hands of the government monopoly...
...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...