Word: british
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...landmark in 1967. This meant that its owner, the nearly bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Co., could not make any changes on the building's exterior without permission from the city's landmarks-preservation commission. Five months later Penn Central leased the airspace above the terminal to a British corporation that wanted to erect an office building on the site. Penn Central submitted to the landmarks commission two plans by Marcel Breuer. One envisioned a 55-story concrete skyscraper floating incongruously above the terminal's mansard roof. The other called for tearing down the facade...
Coolly poised to repel the attack, the British forces moved forward, Hessian grenadiers in fearsome mitred helmets, the Scottish Black Watch regiment resplendent in tartan kilts. Almost as one, the Continentals opened with a fusillade of musket and rifle fire. The British responded with a volley of their own. The smoke cleared. A Red Cross truck lumbered across the field to pick up the fallen, all of them victims of heat exhaustion...
DIED. Sir Dingle Foot, 72, British parliamentarian, globetrotting barrister and member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
...prime mover behind these reforms is Irving R. Kaufman, who was appointed chief judge of the Second in 1973. Kaufman is a believer in the "British tradition of orality." Because he and his colleagues favor "eyeball situations between attorneys and judges." the Second allows oral argument in more than 90% of its cases (vs. an average of 70% in the other circuits). But the flow of advocacy may be quickly cut off if the judges find it repetitious or unessential. Judges in the Second often decide appeals directly from the bench, simply stating their reasons and dispensing with written opinions...
...denounce all at once, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President; George Catlett Marshall, the regnant chief of staff; Harry Luce, the publisher of my magazine; and the U.S. Navy. ("White," he said, "the best navy in the world is the Japanese Navy. A first-class navy. Then comes the British Navy. The U.S. Navy is a fourth-class navy, not even as good as the Italian Navy.") He was completely wrong in this in the spring of 1942, for the U.S. Navy was about to prove...