Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to The London Independent, a British couple has conceived a female baby using the treatment...
Patten also exhibited some frustration with China, saying that many times he thought British and Chinese leaders had reached a clear agreement on Hong Kong only to have the arrangement disintegrate. "It's extremely important to be clear as to what you think you've agreed to with China and then stick with it," he said...
Andrew "The only good injun is a dead injun" Jackson: Directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent American Indians, Jackson was also personally charged with the murder of two British citizens (a charge not followed up by a pro-expansion Congress, prone to turning the other way if a morally unjust or even criminal act was perceived as good for the building of the American empire). Today Jackson could be tried for genocide, war crimes and double homicide...
...America's favorite billionaire (that would be Cuddly Warren or Nebbishy Bill), but in Britain, he's a real crowd displeaser. So it was a nervy step to buy the U.K.'s most popular soccer team, Manchester United, and thus earn the ire of all those British soccer fans. The $1 billion purchase brought on predictably apoplectic headlines from the British tabs--including MURDOCH MOST FOUL and GREED 4, HONESTY 1--and threats from fan associations and former players that they will stop supporting the team. The kerfuffle is in sharp contrast to the blase reaction when Murdoch bought...
...just hit me," he says, "that the cold war really was over and the world needed a documentary record of this conflict." A great admirer of The World at War, the classic syndicated series about World War II, Turner sought out its producer, Jeremy Isaacs, a prominent figure in British television. Four years and $12 million after the two first met, the collaboration has resulted in a production that is almost unique in its intelligence and sweep...