Word: briton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rare is the Briton who has not paused during a seaside holiday to dash off a "wish-you-were-here" note on one of those "naughty postcards." From Brighton and Blackpool, millions of the garishly colored cards are mailed each year with their fat ladies and skinny drunks, timid vicars and saucy tarts, bashful honeymooners and beery, bulb-nosed husbands, all with risqué captions. Since 1904, their creator, shy, retiring Donald McGill, turned out no fewer than 12,500 cards, and sold 200 million copies. In London, the "King of the Postcards" died at 87, and Britain last week...
...breakfast table with their kippers uneaten and their cuppas undrunk. To their surprise, there was no need at all to rush. As it turned out. the heaviest road traffic was not going into London but the other way-to beaches, picnic grounds and golf courses. For every brave Briton who had decided to struggle to work, it seemed that at least two simply took the day off. The City of London had one-third its normal inflow of 1,500,000 people. Shops were half empty. Autos zipped into town at 60 m.p.h.. buses glided smoothly, and Transport Minister...
Some time this year, NATO is supposed to select a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) plane, and even though Britain's P.1154 has a clear jump on the field, officials already are worried. "The U.S. could ask everybody to hold off and wait for theirs," said one Briton, and that might mean grave trouble for big planemakers like British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley...
James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
...standards, hardboiled, hard-drinking Bond is a pukka cad who divides his time between bedding beautiful women, downing four-star meals and killing counter-bounders, all with the same cool, clinical skill. SMERSH, the official Soviet murder agency, has been trying to bury 007 for years, but the canny Briton keeps on surviving bullets, knives, bombs, sharks and poisons, notably a paralyzing fluid extracted from the sexual organs of the Japanese globefish...