Word: cobber
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Britain's rowdy tabloids had a field day, with headlines like HANDS ORF, COBBER! and Australian political foes accused him of disrespect. Keating retorted that he had learned "self-regard for Australia, and not some cultural cringe" toward Britain. He repeated the hoary complaint that Britain's swift loss of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942 had left Australia defenseless...
...bleached jawbone of barrier reefs and ragged mountains. Last week, as computers in Sydney and Canberra digested the raw data of Australia's 13th census in 178 years, it was clear that the ghastly blank was far from filled-and that for many a ruggedly individualistic cobber the ghastliest blank of all is a government census form...
...Sure, cobber. See "Manning the Outpost," TIME, July...
...bolter's. But they find him, and tell him his crimes were a furphy, and that the real spieler, that gazob at the pub, dropped his bundle and smoked for Sydney till the bible-basher got the leg-rope on him. In the end, of course, a pongo cobber shouts Smiley a bike, and everything is bokker. Got the flaming drill...
While we are doing our best to keep the typewriter from floating away as the waves swirl around the room, weatherman Dick "Cobber" Shorrock assures us that this is only a light early-fall shower. It seems that the monsoon season around Boston doesn't start until late winter. In the meantime several bright and penetrating suggestions have been made to alleviate the situation...