Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pace of its dissolution. Home rule seemed all but assured for Ireland until the chief advocate in Britain's Parliament, Charles Parnell, was haled into court as a corespondent in a divorce case. Because of his affair with Kitty O'Shea, which outraged Irish Catholics and British Nonconformists alike, Parnell was ruined and home rule was set back for more than 30 years...
...because of the honest love of a married woman, while his near-contemporary, David Lloyd George, remained Prime Minister of Great Britain despite many love affairs and several illegitimate children. As his son almost boastfully put it: "He was probably the greatest natural Don Juan in the history of British politics. To portray his life without taking into account this side of his personality is like failing to depict Beethoven's handicap of, deafness during the composition of his greatest works...
Hinchcliffe said he hoped that the outcome of the two cases would lead quickly to settlements in other suits involving about 60 British children, whose parents desperately need money to pay for extraordinary care. Countless families are in similar straits in West Germany, which has more than 2,500 tha-lidomide-deformed children. Last week the marathon trial involving executives of Chemie Grunenthal GMBH, developers of thalidomide, droned through its 150th day. It is expected to drag on through next spring...
...owners. The Greeks set up shop wherever they can do business, in London, Manhattan, Lausanne or Beirut. They fly the most convenient flag -Liberian, Panamanian, Cypriot-but they remain Greek wherever they go. Their enterprise has been a major force in lifting the postwar economies of shipbuilding nations. In British shipyards alone, the Greeks now account for 25% of all orders...
Ready? In the late 1930s, Justine (Anouk Aimée), the sensual wife of an Egyptian banker named Nessim (John Vernon), had been yearning after the aloof British diplomat Pursewarden (Dirk Bogarde), although she had to content herself with the favors of Darley (Michael York), a young writer and lover of a belly dancer named Melissa (Anna Karina). Suddenly Justine and Nessim are revealed as Coptic Christians involved in smuggling guns to Palestine so that the Jews can fight the British. Pursewarden, who knows of their treachery, keeps silent, apparently out of love for Justine. Melissa meanwhile goes...