Word: birches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the impartial face of British Justice lies a streak of legal ruthlessness: through the centuries, Britons have found reasons for flogging people. Last week they were again debating the merits of the "cat" and the "birch...
...attached to a 20-in. handle. The cat was applied across the bare back-in recent times, in the presence of a doctor-after neck and kidneys had been protected against permanent injury. Maximum number of strokes for civilian offenders: 50. A milder alternative ordered by judges was the birch, a yard-long bundle of twigs, soaked" in water and whacked across bare buttocks...
...potentially rich. The famed Grand Banks off its southeast coast, discovered for England by John Cabot in 1497, are still the world's greatest cod-fishing grounds. Newfoundland's forests abound with prime black spruce for papermaking; they hold the only big stand of disease-free birch left in Canada. Newfoundland's unharnessed streams can eventually yield an estimated 8,000,000 h.p. of electric energy, nearly one-third the total developed in the U.S. The rocky land is rich in iron; it has proved deposits of lead, zinc and copper, and encouraging indications of nickel...
...Bevanites offered their own package, which contained some of the Red wares but came more attractively wrapped. It was presented by Alan Birch, whose powerful union includes shop clerks and warehousemen; he carefully denied that his union was afflicted with the "Bevanite neurosis"-then deftly put the case for Bevan. Unlike the Communists and fellow travelers, he admitted the need for rearmament, but advocated sharp cuts. He temporarily swayed the congress, which gave him a lusty round of applause...
...wedding night, Caroline discovers that her husband is a boor: he is "panting like a woodchopper felling young birches in the forests of Touraine." But since Georges is busy all day with politics, Young Birch Caroline soon gets a chance to branch out. Gaston de Salanches, for example, knows how to appreciate her. "My darling," he murmurs, "do you know that you have the most beautiful breasts in the world?" After a little more shoptalk, Caroline goes spinning "dizzily to unknown heights of ecstasy...