Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committed to peace in Ireland? She bravely told how her sister's three children, eight years, two years and six weeks old, had been killed when the car of a member of the provisional Irish Republican Army--Who moments before had been killed at the wheel by British gunfire-ran over the children...
Kenneth Russell Cork, newly elected Lord Mayor of the City of London: "I think the way the British survive in the circumstances in which they are forced to live is unbelievable and marvelous, and I propose to go around telling people...
...getting the same service had paid only a fraction as much. Indeed, in August, travelers on bargain tickets accounted for precisely 56.3% of the seats sold by the airlines, compared with 44.8% the year before. Trying to appease this irritated full-fare minority, American, Pan Am, TWA and British Airways have announced new sections in coach that are designed especially to assure business travelers that, as an American ad says, "you get what you pay for." Following similar three-class plans put in earlier by Continental Airlines and British Caledonian, these airlines will maintain their existing first-class sections...
Some officials believe that wave-power machines could conceivably supply all of Britain's electricity needs. Says Alexander Eadie, Britain's Under Secretary for Energy: "Wave power is not just a boffin's pipe-dream. It is a credible proposition." The British government has doubled spending on wave-power research this year, to $5.5 million, and the Japanese have committed $5 million over the next two years. They are betting that these investments could pay off in decades ahead. Oil wells may dry up, but waves will never cease to roll...
...romance with Pamela Tudsbury, daughter of a British radio correspondent, began in Moscow in Winds of War. Here it advances the action on other fronts: the losing battle to keep Singapore from the Japanese, the winning campaign to take Africa back from the Germans. For the war's most painful and harrowing catastrophe, the Nazi destruction of Europe's Jews, Wouk employs the deepening distress of Natalie Jastrow Henry, Submariner Byron's Jewish wife. With her baby and her uncle Aaron Jastrow, a famous American Jewish author, Natalie is caught in Italy when the U.S. declares...