Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vishinsky's phrase was gentlmenskoe soglashenie; the Russian language has borrowed the word "gentleman" from English. † This procedure has not always been followed; two years ago, when Russia backed the Ukraine for a Security Council seat, the U.S. and Britain backed India. The Ukraine was elected...
...should be a shield as much against a revived Germany as against Russia; he would exclude from the pact a belt of neutral buffer states running from Scandinavia through Western Germany, Austria and Italy. Two weeks ago Lippmann expressed his fear that the State Department is planning to make Britain a junior partner in a close U.S.-British alliance, leaving Germany dominant in Europe...
Both Laborites and Tories agreed that Britain must spend less money, but the Labor government had the painful task of showing...
Alarmed at statistics that showed one divorce for every eight marriages in Britain* last year, the courageous speaker, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, went further; than either royal personages or most 23-year-olds are wont to do in speaking her mind. "We live in an age of growing self-indulgence," she warned her Mothers' Union audience, which included a turbaned matron from Lagos, "of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards . . . When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes, we can have no doubt that...
...mother was sent from London to the comparative safety of the ancient Gloucestershire estate of Badminton, one of the first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth. "No one who came to Badminton, whatever their rank or position, was exempt," says her latest biographer. "Queen Mary . . . worked with a will herself, lopping off branches, all the time keeping...