Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife read: "Had to leave unexpectedly. Terribly sorry. Am quite well now. Don't worry darling. I love you. Please don't stop loving me. Donald." Handwriting experts examined the original forms, found they were written by neither Burgess nor MacLean, and "probably not by an Englishman...
...story's hero is the impulsively generous American (Ralph Meeker), who enlists the more cautious Frenchman (Dinan) and Englishman (Michael Medwin) in his efforts to keep troubled Heroine Lindfors and her husband out of the toils of the Soviet authorities. Their unofficial campaign puts the Russian in a tight spot, threatens to upset the precarious working harmony of the four-power command. The story ends with an inconclusiveness more true to life than suitable to drama: the Viennese couple finds sanctuary that seems only temporary; the American reaches a kind of understanding with the Russian that promises to last...
...debater from the Oxford University who toured this country recently sat through an American football game and came away with the impression that whereas the British treat war as a sport, the Americans treat sports as a war. Since the Englishman had only been in this country for a short time and had seen only the surface emotions generated by the gridiron game, it is not surprising that he never arrived at the obvious conclusions that American football is neither sport nor war, but a business...
Three hundred and fourteen years after John Harvard came to the New World from Southwark, England in 1637, another Englishman has come from the little British town to Boston. The reverend Mr. Colin Cuttell, Industrial Missioner from the Diocese of Southwark, left yesterday for Canada after spending almost a month in and around Cambridge...
...hours' rest and then swallow benzedrine in the morning to do their work." ¶"The simple truth about the Negro in America . . . is that he is treated as subhuman . . . [Negroes] live worse than the white man's dog." (Explained Iddon later: "I probably meant an Englishman's dog. After all, Britons treat their dogs very well...