Word: bleedin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profession," says a London primary school headmistress. "Before the war, hardly a single one would have presumed to think so far above his station." Says a London milkman: "If I'd 'ad chances wot my son 'as, I wouldn't be just a milkman, not bleedin' likely...
...latest addition to the Eton-Harrow-Rugby tradition deals with Borstal,*an equally exclusive institution reserved for young English criminals. Brendan Behan, a Borstal Old Boy, has written about his three years in Borstal tie and short, school-uniform pants ("like a bleedin' boy scout"). The second published work (1958) by an author known in the U.S. chiefly for his play, The Quare Fellow (TIME, Dec. 8), Borstal Boy is a rousing reform-school saga...
...young blood rises, Ches and Finn do their share of "kissin' and bleedin' like the Cloonies." When the light is doused on a picnicking foray into a sea cave, Ches feels the touch of a woman's hand. "The fingertips of my right hand then encountered the woman's breast. The touch was fugitive: yet how sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches...