Word: carr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the blackout, beleaguered Britons also had to endure a 24-hour nationwide strike by 350,000 workers protesting the government's proposed Industrial Relations Reform Act, which comes up for debate this week in the House of Commons. The Carr bill, so named for Employment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr, aims at legally preventing wildcat work stoppages. Though the bill is anathema to many union members, only a fraction of Britain's 24 million organized workers left their jobs in protest...
...keynote came from a Texas Democrat, former speaker of the Texas House Waggoner Carr; he was appropriate for the kickoff-about a hundred Texan Young Americans for Freedom had flown in on a chartered plane. Mr. Carr thanked the assembly for the privilege of speaking to them, introduced his wife Ernestine ("One of the prettiest girls of her age in Texas"), and in a slow, polite, instructor's voice free of most of the drawl that he must have been saving for the folks back home, he delivered quietly phrased exhortations that established one of the recurring themes...
...Telephone charges and railway fares are up, some London subway fares have doubled, and postage for a first-class letter will go up from 5d. to 7d. in January. The nationalized coal and gas industries have publicly warned that substantial rate increases are in the offing. Inflation, says Robert Carr, Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, "is out of control. Until we can get it under control, the country will be heading for economic disaster...
Elephant Bird. Responding to the U.S. challenge, the Daily Mail arranged for Cricketer Freddie Trueman to bowl eggs before the thrilled pupils at Carr Mill. With stumps set up for added authenticity, Trueman sent one egg after another whizzing down the cricket pitch at 90 m.p.h. Remarkably, only a few broke. To keep up with its Fleet Street competitor, the Daily Express hired a Piper Aztec to drop five dozen eggs at 150 m.p.h., dive-bombing over an airfield near Carr Mill. Three dozen remained unbroken, leading the school's headmaster to remark: "The ancestor...
Egged on by all the activity, one Carr Mill lad has compiled a list of 60 puns containing the word egg (eggsperiment, eggshausted, eggcetera). Others are learning egg statistics (record number of eggs eaten at one sitting: 47) and making a large model of the egg of the extinct elephant bird. Says Headmaster Appleton: "In this school, it is eggs with everything...