Word: briton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons Are Europeans." M.P.s knew, as did almost every Briton by this week, that their Ernie had indeed made or confirmed a historic change. A main tradition of British foreign policy had been to stand aloof from Europe, and to use Britain's weight to keep two opposing continental groups in a balance where British power could tip the scales. Bevin still believed that "no one nation should dominate Europe." But he added: "The old-fashioned conception of the balance of power should be discarded...
Almost every Briton carried in his heart a bit of proud nostalgia for the Navy's giants; almost every British family had shared in some way the triumphs and the dark hours of the condemned battleships...
...branched out in 1912 with its first Corner House near Piccadilly Circus, biggest restaurant in the world, where 4,500 could eat at once on the nine floors. This mass-market feeding was immensely aided by Chairman Isidore Salmon's penchant for bad puns and good publicity. Every Briton who read a paper became familiar with Sir Isidore's brainchild George, who was always "gone to Lyonch...
...Another Briton felt that nationalization entitled her to ask a favor of the engineer on the 6:20 from Hastings to Ashford. "Would you be so good as to hoot as you go over the iron bridge just out of Rye station," she wrote,"to get my husband up for work? We cannot buy an alarm clock...
...many a Briton, Prime Minister Mackenzie King seemed less a personality than a symbol of a generous Canada that had time & again stood beside the mother country. Said the London Times when he received the Order of Merit: "He has been loyal to Canada, loyal to the Commonwealth, and loyal also to a larger vision of the brotherhood of humanity...