Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Menzies is a cousin of Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
...being shipped to Australia from South America and thence to West Germany [Dec. 6] show that this in fact did not happen. The meat came directly from South America, accompanied by forged and falsified documents that made it appear to have come from Australia. In the interests of the Australian meat trade with the United States, I am very anxious to have this matter corrected...
...Australian Government...
Died. Sir Jack Hobbs, 81, the Ty Cobb of British cricket, who almost singlehanded won the game's symbolic "Ashes" for Britain in 1926 after 14 straight years of galling Australian supremacy, in 1953 was awarded professional cricket's first knighthood, an honor that forever raised the status of professional players, until then required to address their amateur brethren as "Sir"; after a long illness; in Hove, Sussex...
Says Alfred Renton Bridges (every one calls him Harry), for 30 years the controversial boss of West Coast dock workers, in his Australian cockney accent: "If someone wants to get me out of this job, the best way would be to call me a 'labor statesman.' " Yet that, in effect, is what a lot of people who do not want him out of his job are calling him nowadays. Examples...