Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moines Register, But the best proof of how the torrents had thundered under the bridge for the U.S. came last week, not from a remembrance of things past, not from an actual theater of war, nor even from an American. Instead it came from the quiet announcement of a Briton; an announcement so underplayed that its significance did not at first even dawn on U.S. consciousness...
...Briton: But what does Coca-Cola taste like? Cocoa...
...Briton: Does it taste like ginger...
...blow fell last week on that crusty, conservative Briton-of-Britons, Secretary for India Leopold Amery. Over the Berlin radio came the announcement that his son John would speak to Britain. The blow might have been softened by the fact that the German Government disclaimed responsibility for John's words. But the voice that followed read typical canned Nazi propaganda. Excerpts...
...Conservative M.P. he enlivened a House of Commons debate on the herring industry by gesturing with a dead herring as he argued; an autoist since 1897, in his old age he bragged he had never blown his horn, tried to make it illegal for any other Briton to blow...