Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polling places in 630 parliamentary constituencies throughout the British Isles this week, 34 million voters will decide whether to give Britain's Conservative Party an unprecedented third straight general election triumph. Upon their choice will turn the management of Britain's foreign policy, economy and continuing social revolution for anything up to five years to come. Last week, as it became apparent that this glittering prize was genuinely up for grabs, Britain's politicians took off the gloves and began to slug it out barefisted...
...could best spread it and keep it going. As Britain's ruling party for the last eight years, the Tories could claim with some truth that they were the builders of Britain's current boom. But against that. Labor could appeal to the deep-rooted British feeling that no party should be kept in office too long. As election day approached, most of Britain's political experts cagily refused to make predictions and many of London's "turf accountants," i.e., bookies, were refusing to handle election bets. At week's end those who would were...
...Future. British officials were not necessarily on the side of the missionaries; colonial administrators like to preserve native institutions in order to govern through them. But virtually all missionaries in Africa, Catholic or Protestant, agreed with London's Catholic Tablet that 1) Christianity should have the same freedom of action in Rhodesia that all religions have in England; 2) in religious matters, native missionaries should be as immune from tribal laws as white missionaries...
...British Motor Corp.'s Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor, two "baby cars" that have 34-h.p., four-cylinder engines mounted laterally and front-wheel drive. Capable of 70 m.p.h. top speed, the new ultra-small cars run 45 miles on a gallon of gas, will sell for about...
...factory list prices for its compact car, the Falcon. A two-door model will list for $1,746 v. $1,810 for Chevrolet's Corvair; a four-door Falcon will list for $1,803 v. $1,860 for a Corvair. For its imported line Ford showed a restyled, British-built Anglia with a four-cylinder engine that has a top speed of 70 m.p.h., gets up to 35 miles per gallon. Ford says that it has 55,000 orders for the Anglia...