Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While there's certainly no shortage of alternative theories -- one estimate puts the current number of Diana conspiracy web sites at 36,000 -- their credibility is dwindling. Mohammed Al-Fayed has reportedly backed away from his "99.9 percent certainty" that the British Secret Service killed Diana and his son. A recent UK TV documentary suggesting the French Secret Service were responsible got a critical roasting. Barring some last-minute revelation on the role of photographers, a measure of closure is about to be brought to the Princess's demise. Another tragic incident of DWI -- case closed...
...Truman was controlling what he hoped to be the denouement of a most horrendous global conflict. Though he was initiating the nuclear age, he could not possibly have forecast the dissemination of nuclear know-how to countries which at the time were still under the domain of the late British Empire. Even the Soviets were still in the dark as to the workings of America's newest weapon...
Beer, who has written numerous works on British politics, retired from Harvard's government department in 1981. He will receive a Doctorate of Laws...
Galbraith and his wife, Tone R. Bringa, met on a blind business date a few years ago. Bringa, a Norwegian anthropologist who was working as a political analyst for the United Nations in Croatia, says one of her British journalist friends set up an interview for her with Galbraith...
DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...