Word: briton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real-life wife and child in Nassau, the 6-ft. 1-in. actor weighed in at 198 Ibs. Tsk! The Communists plainly don't think that Bondism is flabby. In East Germany, two party newspapers ran bombastic reviews of his "capitalistic, reactionary" adventures, concluded that the dashing Briton's addiction to "opening safes and bras" epitomizes Western decadence. They sound jealous...
...some Catholics who want a modification of the church's position on birth control charge that the membership has been stacked in favor of the status quo. Recently, two of England's best-known Catholic doctors made public a complaint, submitted to the Vatican, that the only Briton appointed, Dr. John Marshall of London, is against any change...
...must be emotionally committed to a single European nation. Lukacs shares De Gaulle's suspicion of a federated Europe, advocating instead the Gaullist vision of a loosely linked Europe des patries. Far from urging a return to truculent nationalisms, Lukacs hopefully champions the more temperate patriotism of the Briton, the slowly developed reverence for history and tradition on which any greater society must be constructed...
Trouble with Hippos. Sugar consumption varies from the African bush-man's 3.7 Ibs. per year to the tea-and taffy-loving Briton's 116 Ibs., but it is rising everywhere, has now reached a worldwide record of 38 Ibs. annually per person. The Dutch set up a sugar industry for Ethiopia, where coffee was traditionally seasoned with salt and spices, and so converted the Ethiopians to sweetness that they have now become modest exporters of sugar. Turkey has also become an exporter, and so has Bolivia, which ran up a 22,000-ton surplus last year...
Hitler & Hell. His bones knew the historic necessity of U.S. intervention. "If we are together, nothing is impossible," he said. "If we are divided, all will fail." The quintessential Briton was, after all, half American. He had often damned Communism's "foul baboonery," but the Nazi invasion of Russia brought Churchill's immediate pledge of unstinting support. "If Hitler invaded Hell," he reasoned, "I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons...