Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englishman arriving in this country since the [British] election declares that the American soldier had as much to do with the result as any single factor. The American Army camped a long time on British soil, and left a deep and disquieting impression, he said. . . . The lavish habits and easy manners of the G.I. attracted the girls, the girls wanted to marry America, and in the drab, hard years of the war young people in general became discontented with a life that offered them so much less than the United States seemed to provide for its citizens. They voted...
...Emporia, Kans., Mrs. William Allen White exclaimed: "Kansans had grown to depend upon the tremendous courage and vitality of this big Englishman. And now zowie...
...housing pains. There was a physical shortage of nearly a million houses, which only new construction (estimated to take four years) could provide. But the Guv'nor and his Vigilantes were a warning: Britain's new Government, Tory or Labor, must give housing top priority. Every homeless Englishman demanded his castle...
...Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica and Winchester. It mattered little that the title of Viscount of Winchester was as exotic in Simla as the Maharaja of Patiala would be in Wapping Old Stairs. In Lord Wavell was embodied the military might and the political glory of one of the only three great powers to survive...
...leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn Englishman at the head of the conference table...