Word: australians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess you probably don't know about it. You're not aware that Sunday is the New South Wales Rugby Football League Grand Final, the Australian equivalent of the Super Bowl...
...mine explosion in County Armagh. Four days earlier a bomb exploded at the London Stock Exchange, causing considerable damage. In June eight people were wounded when a similar device went off in the Carlton Club, a Conservative Party bastion near London's St. James's Palace. In May two Australian lawyers were gunned down in the town square in Roermond, in the Netherlands, apparently mistaken for off-duty British soldiers...
...fact, when both parties think they're speaking the same language: Shaw's famous crack about England and America being "two countries separated by the same language" is 30 times as true now that up to 60 countries claim English as their mother -- or at least stepmother -- tongue. An Australian will invite you to a hotel, and you may be shocked if you don't know that it's what you think of as a bar. An Indian will "prepone" a meeting, and only if you're quick enough to calculate "postpone" in reverse have you any chance of showing...
...Wimbledon for the first time. To achieve that, he has invested ten weeks in unpaid practice on grass courts on three continents. He wants to become the fifth man ever, and the first in more than two decades, to complete a career Grand Slam. (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens acquired this collective honorific when Don Budge won them all in 1938; they were the national championships of the only countries that had yet won the annual Davis Cup for team play...
...Mercury Capri. The car's body was designed in Italy, and its engine and chassis were developed jointly by Ford and Mazda. The Detroit automaker has a 25% stake in the Japanese company. The convertible, which will be built at a Ford plant near Melbourne, will be the first Australian-made car sold in the U.S. The Capri takes dead aim at the Miata. While the Mazda has rear-wheel drive and two seats, the Mercury offers front-wheel drive and a small backseat. Ford has priced the Capri slightly below its rival: $12,588 for the standard model...