Word: donkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British saw that they had intercepted reinforcements for the garrison. The British commander of the South Georgia task force decided to advance the timing of his attack. As Royal Marines Spokesman Lieut. Colonel Tim Donkin in London later summed up the decision: "He judged it right to move, and then to move very swiftly...
...British promised to return their Argentine prisoners to the mainland. In a gesture of civility uncommon in modern warfare, the commanders of the Santa Fe and the Argentine garrison were entertained at dinner aboard a task-force vessel following the victory. The Argentines, according to Royal Marines Spokesman Donkin, expressed "their gratitude for the humanity" of their captors...
...Oyly Carte tradition that Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, proscribe a modern villain or two in his first-act showstopper, I've Got a Little List. And sure enough, Baritone Alistair Donkin ticked off an added starter in his roll of "society offenders who might well be underground, and who never would be missed." Spinning impishly about the stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself...