Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressure groups, including the police, began demanding the return of the hangman. The demand seems to have been premature. According to recently announced figures for 1966, there were only 173 murders in England, Scotland and Wales&*151;compared with 183 and 180 in the two previous years...
...Asimov has lately ventured far afield in his writing, completing books on the Bible and on Greek and Roman history. He also has ambitious plans for books on the Goths and Franks, Constantinople, and histories of England, Germany and France that will somehow be wedged in between volumes on such subjects as "the moon" and "environments out there." Currently, he is in the midst of a first draft of a book on photosynthesis, a complex subject about which he is familiar enough to write entire chapters without the aid of reference books...
...sheds, a general store, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, jail, smithy, covered bridge, railroad station, steam locomotive, lighthouse, sawmill, hunting lodge, and the 892-ton Lake Champlain sidewheeler Ticonderoga. Most of the buildings had been dismantled, brick by brick and board by board, transported from their original sites in and near New England, and rebuilt at Shelburne...
Seeds came up weeds at Wimbledon last week. The All-England Tennis Championships had barely begun when three of the eight seeded players in the men's singles were eliminated. And by whom? By three Yanks - all of whom had been completely ignored by Wim- bledon's seeding committee, and two of whom were members of the U.S. Da vis Cup team that only a week before had lost ingloriously to tiny Ecuador in the American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly...
Sold in parts of New York State, New Jersey and New England, the new beer is being pushed by a saturation advertising campaign that Rheingold estimates will expose most of the area's beer drinkers to Gablinger's advertising 60 times over a four-week period. The ads are the work of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, which has previously turned out copy ("We must be doing something right") for the company's Rheingold brand. For Gablinger's, Doyle Dane makes the point that a bottle of ordinary beer has a carbohydrate content equivalent to that...