Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest as Britain in 1) keeping the Russians out, and 2) getting the oil out. The British see the Palestine problem against the background of the larger U.S.-British objective of playing along with the Middle East Arabs. When President Truman flayed Britain on the Palestine issue, one angry Briton said: "He has sold your oil for a mess of New York votes...
Among the dimly lit midnight blue and rose appointments of London's newest and most expensive nightclub, the "Orchid Room," a middle-aged Briton swayed slightly in his chair, comfortably close to a bucket of champagne. From time to time he would wave vaguely at a French girl warbling seductively in the spotlight. "Vive la France!" he pronounced with dignity, "Vive la France...
Akihito already has a male instructor, Reginald H. Blyth, a Briton interned in Japan during the war, who has been teaching the prince English since last December, thinks Mrs. Vining may be "disappointed with his limited vocabulary." (Akihito learned the future tense only last week.) Says Blyth: "If only she could develop initiative in him. He is too passive...
...Britons had fallen into the habit of gloom. They queued up in shops whether or not it was necessary. Recently, when an American reproved a British editor for not printing news about U.S. shortages, the Briton replied: "Why, if we told our readers that we aren't so much worse off than the Americans, we'd be depriving ourselves of our last comfort...
Somebody in Britain had made skeptical sounds about low U.S. golf scores (like Byron Nelson's phenomenal 68.3 average last year). The scores were phony, said this Briton, because they were made on easy courses, with the ball teed up on the fairway. No U.S. golfer could say him nay,*but somebody in Britain had to pay for saying...