Word: british
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Putnam. He manipulated the press to create an international celebrity. Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland. But if she was an eagle aloft, she remained a sparrow on the ground. Lovell, biographer of the British pilot Beryl Markham, can do little to romanticize her taciturn subject. It is only when Earhart climbs into the cockpit that The Sound of Wings truly takes...
...buzz word for the 1990s, especially in the entertainment business these days, is global. Paramount Communications last week announced that it had taken a major step in that direction by purchasing a 49% stake in the British firm Zenith, Europe's leading independent television programmer. A subsidiary of Carlton Communications, Zenith last year produced such dramas as The Paradise Club and Inspector Morse in Britain, as well as the romantic comedy Finnegan Begin Again...
...certainly did not expect my contact with literature in college to mirror a nightmare attributed to British philosopher Bertrand Russell. He once dreamed that he was in a giant library watching a library assistant update the stacks. As she walked through with a bucket, she picked up volumes, glanced at them for a moment, and then threw them away. Russell was particularily alarmed when she tossed out the last remaining copy of his Principia Mathematica, a brilliant work on mathematics and logic...
Fifty-one years ago, a famous British Prime Minister bet his reputation that no such emotions would ever reign in Germany. After returning from the 1938 Munich Conference at which he agreed to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain told his fellow citizens, "For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time....Go home and get a nice quiet sleep...
Fearing that racism is involved, Sikh leaders point out that turbaned Sikhs served in the British army in two world wars and now work in many Canadian police forces. After seven months' study, the government has still not decided whether the Mounties will get their turbaned...