Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parliament's 111-member Socialist bloc came in a decided No. 2 to the center-right parties, even though it is larger than any one of them. If the three latter groups (the Christian Democrats of continental Europe, with 106 seats; the British and Danish Conservatives, with 63 seats; and the French, West German and Low Country Liberals, with 40) can come to a working alliance, they should be able to dominate the Parliament for its first five-year term. The Socialists publicly refused a common "popular front" with the 44 Communists and their allies, although on such pocketbook...
...British Laborites, meanwhile, paid dearly for their years of ambivalent feelings about the Common Market. As former Prime Minister Harold Wilson noted all too aptly of some Labor leaders, "They would really have liked to campaign on the basis of pulling out of Europe." In an election that produced a voter turnout of only 32%, the Tories took 60 of the country's 81 seats, leaving the Laborites with only 17. Saddest of the losers were the Liberals. Though they gained 1.7 million votes, or 13.1% of the British total, the Liberals won no seats at all because Britain...
Perhaps no one is more hated in Uganda today than British-born Bob Astles, who was Idi Amin's most trusted aide. After Amin's fall, Astles fled to Kenya, where he was captured, interrogated and finally extradited to Uganda last week. When he learned that he would be sent back to Uganda, according to Kenyan authorities, Astles tried to escape by jumping from a window. But by the time he arrived in Uganda a few hours later to face a murder charge, Astles had regained his composure. Said he: "It's nice to be back...
...year was 1943, and all of Europe was in love. Well, not all of Europe. What with a war going on and Nazis everywhere, some people only had time for death. But David Halloran, a derring-do American pilot, and Margaret Sellinger, a proper British wife, were special. David and Margaret had time for everything: for love, for death, for sex and, most of all, for tea. Hanover Street is the tear-dripping saga of this couple's tea-sipping romance in war-torn Europe. It is the kind of big-screen romance they just don't make...
...hairy legs are in full and virile view whether he is impersonating Marlene Dietrich in her black-garter outfit from The Blue Angel or banana-topped Carmen Miranda or dear, dear Noël Coward. Dale is the captain of a kinky service entertainment unit attached to beleaguered British troops who are in the process of losing Singapore...