Word: anglo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among likely bidders are Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch industrial complex, and a consortium of British companies led by British Leyland Motors, producer of Jaguars, MGs, Austins and bodies for Rolls-Royces (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler insist that they have no interest). If there are no bids above an undisclosed "reserve" price, estimated by London financiers at $120 million to $150 million, then the sale is off. Otherwise, the company's physical assets will go to the highest bidder, British or foreign-but only if the buyer is a British company will it be allowed to keep the Rolls...
...instance, than between Munich and Florence. "I was in Florence yesterday," he said, "and I really had the feeling of being on another continent." If ever there is to be a common culture for Europe, he believes that it will be the result of cross-fertilization from the Anglo-American orbit-not so much in art or literature as in lifestyles. "These influences range from the habit, new to Europe, of calling people by their first names, to the social influence of radio and TV shows, to the way that fashions develop outside traditional centers in Europe...
...French may forget that the Anglo-Americans could engage in that traditional tactic known as la riposte. Comfortably embedded in the English language are many French phrases that could be driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire by leave it alone and chauvinist by superpatriot. In the art of love, soiree would give way to the bash, rendezvous to date and femme fatale to sexpot. As for savoir-faire-cool, man. But then, plus ca change...
George Orwell was born Eric Blair in 1903, the child of an Anglo-Indian civil servant who qualified, but only barely for membership in the English Establishment. He was the descendent of a long line of younger sons and could, if he chose to, trace his ancestry back to an Earl of Westmoreland and an absentec of younger sons, most of the material advantages had disappeared and Blair felt his marginal status strongly. With a father who began his working life as Assistant Sub-Deputy Opium Agent, fifth grade, and ended it Sub Deputy Opium Agent first grade...
...merely the academic indulgence of an over-refined dialectical mind that leads one into stating that in reality the Afro-American is fully captured only when it is seen that he is at once both African and Anglo-American at the same time as he is equally neither African nor Anglo-American," he said. "This purview alone succeeds in defining the Afro-American in his uniqueness...