Search Details

Word: britons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Marcus Porcius Cato never wore a derby hat. He never chain-smoked cigars or drank a highball. But Cato and Winston Churchill would have understood each other perfectly on one subject: Mediterranean policy. Like the Briton, the Roman understood that the key to the middle of the Middle Sea is the island of Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Free Sicily | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

What had Londoners on edge was that the Things fell in no pattern at all. They were unpredictable; the Briton has never cared for that characteristic in anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: Obsessive Menace | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...roundabout way last week a Briton showed what Britons have long thought of U.S. soldiers but have never said out loud. From the Normandy front the London Daily Mail's Correspondent John Hall reported on the G.I. Joes who had been quartered in England. Hall wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Letter from a Cousin | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Surely," concludes Briton Britton, "this action cannot be purely instinctive. It argues a mental maladjustment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Narcissistic Sparrow | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...many an M.P., and of many a plain Briton, Manny Shinwell's question still rang: "What is the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plain Talk | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Previous | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | 213 | 214 | 215 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | Next