Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...envy those lucky U.S. student activists! While they were meditating on Mailer and Goodman. I was wading through Macaulay's History of England and the Weber thesis. While they were getting the vote out in New Hampshire and Wisconsin, I was dragging 75% of a frequently apathetic student body to the polls in Choice '68. While they were having their theses postponed, I was up all night typing an overdue anthropology paper. While they were getting money from Daddy, I was hurrying to my Saturday job. While they were uncommitted to a future career, I was unsuccessfully seeking...
Though only a third of the council seats were at stake, the rout left Labor in control of only 43 out of 374 boroughs in England and Wales; only five of the 43 were in big cities...
...major parties to win the balance of political power. Those gains demonstrated that nationalism-the dominant political emotion these days in almost every country-has become something of an obsession in Scotland. Heady with victory, Scot-Nat leaders renewed their demand for independence after 261 years of union with England. Said Mrs. Ewing: "The Nationalist Party cannot now be stopped...
...history. It is not to be removed by lies about our gold-dollar reserves, but only by a fresh start under a fresh leader." King's attack carried the authority of an insider, and he followed it up by resigning as a director of the Bank of England, which manages the country's day-to-day accounts. Britain's already shaky pound responded by weakening sharply in world money markets...
John Levin, who recently captured the New England Singles Championship, breezed to an easy 6-3, 6-4 win in singles. He teamed with Rocky Jarvis to score a 12-9 triumph at number one doubles...