Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Example: stable world markets and indeed the safety of free civilization depend on maintaining a strong U.S. economy. The U.S. patriot in today's world, Ike said to the students, faces challenges as stirring as that felt by Francis Scott Key as he gazed from the British fleet, where he was held captive during a War of 1812 battle, and saw the bursting rockets' red glare over nearby Baltimore...
...newsmen in Geneva, most of whom found little to write about beyond tactical differences among the Western powers, the Russian ploy was successful enough to provoke London's BBC into an irate accusation that the West Germans were conducting a "whispering campaign" against the British delegation. But with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that's the best you can offer...
...RECORD BRITISH EXPORTS to U.S. last month rose to $100,520,000 from previous high (last January) of $73,920,000. Reason for the jump: increased car shipments, which account for nearly one-third of total. By contrast U.S. exports abroad continue...
...plot about social climbing, recalling Stendhal's The Red and the Black, in a modern welfare-state setting. Based on a book by John Braine, one of Britain's angry young novelists, the picture sometimes verges on caricature and cliche, but it remains one of the best British movies in years...
...British Universities Cited...