Word: briton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puzzling Problems. The Briton and the Frenchman had come to the U.S. for the U.N.'s tenth anniversary ceremonies in San Francisco, but before the birthday party, Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay had to discuss a puzzling problem in world diplomacy: the true reason for the Communists' sudden switch from cold-warriors to peace-shouters. Standing in Sir Pierson's paneled library. Dulles gave the U.S. evaluation of what had caused the Kremlin to accept an Austrian treaty that was less favorable than the one it had rejected out of hand a year before...
...power, as clumsy as any champion since Camera, he took 8 rounds and 54 seconds to batter Cockell senseless. Then the British writers, who once upon a time were renowned for understatement, really turned it on. Their champion, taking a savage beating, had indeed met defeat like a true Briton. "And that is why the high and the mighty, the men with power, the women with beauty and vast possessions are rising in a kind of primeval mass sympathy and acclamation for a man from thousands of miles away," wrote the London Daily Mirror's Peter Wilson. "They rise...
...strong dissenting opinion to all of hi-fi was filed by an indignant Briton who recently wrote to High Fidelity magazine: "I fail to see what pleasure there is in having to have a unit with as many as 16 knobs and selector switches . . . Me, I am so old-fashioned that my home-built [unit] has no tone control . . . Furthermore, I am sure that I have rumble-pardon...
Birding Author. As Allingham tells it, he was out watching for rare birds that afternoon when a 50-ft. saucer skimmed right past his camera to land beside him, and this tall fellow hopped out. The stranger, Allingham says, looked just like any North Briton except for a "forehead higher than that of any man I know." When Allingham sketched a sun with planets orbiting round it on a pad, he says, the visitor smiled and pointed to the fourth planet and then to his own space-suited figure. That clearly placed his home on Mars...
...barter agreement has paved the way, the Germans have made the best of it with service and salesmanship. "If you inquire in France, the U.S., Great Britain and Germany about buying machinery," says a Caracas businessman, "the Frenchman doesn't answer, the U.S. company sends a catalogue, the Briton assures you his product is the best, and two Germans show up and ask, 'Where do we put it?' " In capitals and backlands throughout Latin America, German salesmen in belted jackets, speaking good Spanish or Portuguese, take pride in a three-word motto: "Sell, sell, sell!" They welcome...