Word: briton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black boots and waterproofs, blonde hair stuffed carelessly into a green helmet, pert Jill Savage looked like a B-movie caricature of a reformatory-bound juvenile delinquent. But Cyclist Savage, 23, is more than a thrill-happy young Briton. She is a grim competitor in one of the world's most harrowing and hazardous sports: cross-country motorcycle racing. Fortnight ago, she startled 268 male competitors by winning a bronze medal in motorcycling's most rugged contest: the International Six-Day Motorcycle Trial-a grueling, 1,200-mi. marathon, run through the mountainous backwoods of Wales...
...French, bomb throwers Bulgars, weeping drinkers Polish or Russian, and anyone who keeps a lioness as a pet is certain to be British. Author Joy Adamson was born in Vienna, but years of marriage to a senior game warden in Kenya were sufficient to infect her with a Briton's daft fondness for treating animals the way other people treat children...
When My Girl Comes Home, by V. S. Pritchett. Dry and controlled tales by a Briton with a keen eye for the madness that squirms in view when the ordinary is overturned...
Around four large wooden desks in a dirty greystone building in West Berlin, an American, a Briton, a Frenchman and a Russian work together 24 hours a day, almost as if the cold war did not exist. This is Berlin's Air Safety Center, where the West advises East of its flights up the three air corridors over Communist territory from West Germany. The system is supposed to avoid accidents; in fact, it neatly ties the Soviets to tacit recognition of the West's rights to fly the disputed airlanes. Many Western officers think Russia will...
...boost in purchase taxes and duties on almost everything a Briton buys, from cigarettes and wine to cars and television sets. Lloyd estimated that the higher prices would give Britons some $588 million less pocket money to spend, presumably cut down on imports, currently running way ahead of exports. In a nation where the average weekly wage is $45, a packet of cigarettes will now cost...