Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palmer McArthur, 74, and his wife Mary, 73, it was the trip of a lifetime. At the Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, they had the chance in June to be with their four children, their spouses and 14 grandchildren. It posed no problem that June is off-season in the Caribbean. The weather there is consistent throughout the year, with temperatures averaging 80[degrees] F to 90[degrees] F, and the Bitter End staff was able to give the McArthurs lots of personal attention, including organizing activities for all three generations. Better yet, traveling...
...which he regards as a personal and national indignity. Outpowered militarily, Assad knows negotiations are his best option. The Syrian leader, 68, suffers multiple ailments, which are thought to include diabetes and heart disease. He is eager to prepare the succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense of urgency now because he would like to strike the deal himself," says Bassma Kodmani-Darwish, an analyst at the Ford Foundation in Cairo. "He would...
Have Northern Ireland?s firebombs really turned to tea and sandwiches? The Protestant Orange Order, blocked from their cherished Sunday march past Catholic homes by a fence of razor wire, a makeshift moat and a stubborn contingent of British troops, chose instead of violence a gambit that the region sees all too little of at this time of year. They backed down. "Keep it peaceful. I am warning you I will walk away from this if you don't keep it peaceful," the leader of Portadown's Orangemen, Harold Gracey, told his charges through a loudspeaker before ordering them away...
...about bashing heads together. Northern Ireland's politicians failed to make a peace deal, so Britain plans to force them into one -- even as the province braces itself for some ugly fireworks on July 4. After marathon talks failed to yield a breakthrough two days after passing their deadline, British prime minister Tony Blair announced Friday that his government would simply implement the next stage of the peace process without waiting for republicans and loyalists to agree on the handover of IRA weapons. Loyalist politicians had sought to delay the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly's executive, which would...
...Trimble will now have to consult with his constituents over whether to accept the British plan or lead the parties who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain on a path of confrontation with London. The first test of the loyalist mood will come Sunday, when British troops will enforce a ban on a march by Protestant militants through a Catholic neighborhood in Drumcree. The spectacle of miles of razor wire and a field flooded to create a moat between Protestant marchers -- ostensibly commemorating the Battle of the Somme -- and some 1,000 troops and police protecting the Catholic...