Word: dinkum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Prime Minister John G. Gorton recently toured northern Australia's coal, oil, iron and bauxite fields, the trip turned out to be less than a happy inspection. The assessments that the fields are among the world's richest new natural resources are fair dinkum. But at each stop, when Gorton asked his hosts about the Australian share in their projects, the answers were disheartening...
...brought back many wonderful memories of those days. It is great to know we have the Yanks on our side. As we know, when the chips are down, the Yanks and Aussies are one. So we thank you for giving us the great honor of seeing a Dinkum bloke...
...Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album, titled Diana Trask, she is beginning to strike the trade as pretty fair dinkum...
...also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows if, on the whole, the show ain't square dinkum and everybody's cuppa...
Robert Menzies may eloquently summarize the new Australian vigor, but the national motivation of which you speak comes directly from those dinkum "blokes, coves and coots" who see a job to be done and are quietly going about doing it, fortified by a slightly irreverent bush spirit and the best bloody beer in the world...