Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign that bygones were bygones, De Gaulle had invited along the popular British Ambassador to France, Sir Gladwyn Jebb...
With this couplet, G. K. Chesterton hymned the traditional British inability to get from place to place by a direct route. About the only straight roads on the island are those laid out atop old Roman roads like famed Watling Street, which makes a 160-mile run from London to Wales. In the days of gas rationing, austerity and fewer cars, it was possible for the lucky few to speed across country or through cities with ease. But last week, its inadequate road net jammed with 8,000,000 cars, 1,500,000 motorcycles and uncounted millions of bicycles, Britain...
Blinking Lights. In addition to traffic, British motorists face a horror largely unknown in the U.S.: the driver whose car displays, front and back, the big red L sign that stands for "learner." Disregarding double lines, painted arrows, blinking lights, rules of the road and the prospect of dismemberment and death, many L drivers whip past trucks on hills and blind curves, weave nonchalantly from lane to lane on the few big throughways. Picnicking on Sunday, drivers blithely leave their cars parked in the path of traffic. Last month 515 Britons died in traffic accidents; 23,277 were injured...
...British decided last week to take a chance on Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government has been elected national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action. He will undertake active leadership beginning next fall, after completing a book on British Politics...