Word: bloomin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Future of Europe") duly applauded, Laborite Peer Lord Attlee settled down for tea at Indiana's Valparaiso University. Cream or lemon?asked the hostess.Answered Attlee, with just the flicker of a smirk: "Ever since the Boston Tea Party, you Americans have been trying to dredge up our bloomin' tea and give it back to us. No, thanks-I'll have coffee...
Sentimentalists who had seen Maude Adams or Helen Hayes sweeten the role did not find the Maggie of their memories. "Maggie isn't so virtuous," says Siobhan in her rich resonance, the native Gaelic just a thin inflection away. "She can be a bloomin' bitch. I could play her all mealymouthed, the poor little rich girl, but I don't see it that...
...week's end, the officials of the London Transport had completely surrendered. It promised that Underground passengers will no longer be ordered about "like a lot of bloomin' cattle," and agreed "whenever possible" to tell travelers via public address systems at all main stations the reason why they are being asked to leave a train...
...what they called 'im. 'E's no genius, 'e's a bloody miracle worker. 'E's taken the evacuation at Dunkirk-their finest hour, like the aowl' boy said, an' the greatest military operation in the 'aowl' bloomin' 'istory of military warfare-an' 'e's got official films and records, pots of money, 'e's got a cast 'e couldn't squeeze into Trafalgar Square, an' wot else...
...Majjinot Line crumblin' an' all that. 'Ere's John Mills, 'e's a British corporal an' 'e's tryin' to fight a war in France, an' all 'e's got to shoot at is a bloomin' painted backdrop. 'E heventually walks to the beach, since 'e's walked everywhere else there is, an' 'e lies down for a nap while the Stukas bomb all the other blokes...