Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tomorrow is an important day. No, it's not that the prefrosh are coming (a realization some-what similar to the idea in 1775 that the British were coming). It's not even that it's the second to the last Friday in April and we are finally within striking distance of the end of the year. No, April 23 is significant because it's the Bard's birthday. That's right, folks, William Shakespeare, the man himself, the poet and playwright to end all poets and playwrights, turns 435 tomorrow...
...British had warned Italy not to let the ship sail, and an Italian gunboat prevented its departure. A clever Italian woman, the liaison between the Jews and the Italian government, coerced an Italian admiral into diverting the gunboat...
...story begins when the Jewish underground called for volunteers to help these "displaced persons" reach Palestine--whether the British liked...
...British again subtly intervened--they bribed the operator of the tugboat responsible for pulling the ship out to sea. In a risky move, the Exodus crew distracted guards and cut the cable to the tugboat...
...struggle between the Jews and the British--who had been their liberators throughout Europe just a few months before--continued until a 1949 United Nations agreement granted a portion of Palestine for Jewish settlement...