Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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N.A.H. GOODMAN Mackenzie, British Guiana...
...mainstream of news consists not only of the efforts and activities of statesmen. Indeed, such efforts and activities can be supported only by the currents of thought and culture springing from man's mind. This week TIME'S cover subject, British Sculptor Henry Moore, provides a significant case in point...
...WHAT British political party has won the most national elections...
...perhaps as much to get rid of him as anything else, Congress authorized Paul Jones to sail Ranger to France and there seek a ship more to his liking. While searching, Jones in Ranger conducted raids on the English and Scottish coasts and became the terror of the British Isles. After more than a year, Jones found a ship in which he could, as he put it, "go in harm's way": Le Due de Duras, a twelve-year-old East Indiaman renamed Bonhomme Richard after the Poor Richard of his friend Benjamin Franklin...
Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul with John St. John. In September 1944, British Field Marshal Montgomery ordered an airborne attempt to outflank the Siegfried Line, and a British battle surgeon who tended the wounded of that unsuccessful mission writes movingly of blood, death and capture...