Word: briton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a Briton, and to the Laborite Opposition in particular, the words meant a gloomy return to an all-too-familiar picture of belt tightening and austerity-soaring prices, short supplies, rationing, unemployment and inflation. The Ministry of Fuel and Power already has a complete supply of new ration books on hand, and is drafting an army of clerks to pass them out. Gas rationing seems a certainty by Christmas time, with the private motorist the first to suffer from it. Some industries dependent on oil are making plans to convert to coal, which will in turn bring...
...that melancholy trip is a young British war hero just starting out in the colonial service. As the flight begins, the two young men hate each other, but before they land at London in a blaze of press notoriety, there is something of friendship between the two. The young Briton confides that he is about to be married. "A white girl?" cracks Dinamaula. Both laugh, and in their laughter Author Monsarrat hears hope for the future...
...satisfactorily explained how and why the monarch whom Rudyard Kipling called "a corpulent voluptuary" was also modern Britain's most agile royal diplomat and plenipotentiary. Now, Boston-bred Virginia Cowles has shown that an American woman may look at a King with more understanding than many a Briton. Married to former Under Secretary of State for Air Aidan Crawley, Author Cowles has been a newspaper correspondent in Europe since the Spanish civil war. The excellence of her biography lies in her sensuous, feminine appreciation of Edward...
...mere pop tune, as the massed strings soared to the discrete pulsation of a harp or a guitar. And sometimes the music actually was more respectable, as when it was an orchestral arrangement of an operatic aria. This was the music of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, a swarthy Italian-turned-Briton who five years ago zoomed to the top of the "mood music" heap and has stayed at or near it ever since...
...World Methodist Council the conference elected the Rev. Dr. Harold Roberts, dean of the theology faculty at the University of London and president-designate of the British Methodist Church. And at its close, the meeting adopted a 1,500-word "Message to the Churches," drafted primarily by another Briton-the Rev. Walter James Noble, a member of the World Methodist Council. The message set Methodism firmly on record in several areas of division and doubt. Highlights...