Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some people have speculated that the hill in the marijuana trade- felt on the East Coast since the summer- will continue for a few more months until local supplies are grown. Nixon then will have to fly his marijuana-detecting devices over campuses and New England farms rather than over the Mexican hills...
...Harvard Coop will issue new credit cards to members which they can use at stores in the Square and throughout New England...
...charge at the Coop will have to register for a new card. One side of the card will be similar to the old Coop card and will display the old number. The other side will be a Charge Account Plan (CAP) card, which can be used throughout New England. Students who wish to make all purchases by cash may continue to use the old Coop card...
UNTIL the end of the 19th century, evangelistic Christianity nearly always meant a heroic dedication both to spreading the Gospel and to helping one's fellow man. In England, Philanthropist William Wilberforce typified that spirit when, after his conversion, he led the fight for abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire. In the U.S., too, evangelicals were involved in the abolitionist movement and in fights against civic corruption, poverty, prostitution and "demon rum." Only as the 19th century waned did the shock of the newly secular world and a creeping pessimism about man cause evangelical* churches to retreat into...
...Croker, played by Michael Caine with his bag of standard accessories: cockney locutions, drooping eyelids and acute satyriasis. Charlie uses jail the way some men use their country clubs-to make valuable contacts. Though he is a petty criminal, Charlie contrives to rub shoulders with the larcenist laureate of England, an elegant superpatriot of a prisoner known only as Mr. Bridger (Noel Coward). Britannia waives the rules for Bridger, who affects Savile Row threads, dines alone, and stabilizes sterling by masterminding foreign robberies from his cell...