Word: briton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed they were. Only the day before, the Prime Minister had done what his party had hoped he would. Capitalizing on the average Briton's unparalleled prosperity and Labor's soaring popularity, he called a general election for March 31. The Gallup poll forecast that Wilson would win a 165-seat majority in the 630-seat House. London bookies made Labor a 6-to-1 favorite...
...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime reminiscences...
...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a hapless young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime fictional reminiscences...
...annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
Help Wanted. Growth is slowest in Britain, where stagnation and affluence continue to make an odd couple. London looks like the best-dressed city in Europe; saddlemakers and Savile Row tailors are backlogged with orders, and the average Briton feels that he is doing better than all right. Yet the island suffers from overfull employment (jobless rate: 1.4%), spiraling wages and sluggish productivity. To battle inflation and spur exports, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has sought to deflate domestic consumption by raising taxes and restricting credit. In 1965 the pound was thus defended and strengthened, and the trade gap was drastically...