Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their way to aid a garrison under siege by the Communist regiments and artillery of General Vo Nguyen Giap. "This battle is a very conventional one," said an American adviser, Colonel J. Ross Franklin. "Giap's battle plan could have come from a German, a Frenchman or an Englishman. They're leading with their infantry, supported by artillery and tanks. They have everything...
Fraser, an Englishman schooled in Scotland, makes a bold attempt to bring some order into the historical melee. He has no difficulty showing that patriotism had little to do with it all. Scots preyed upon English and were preyed upon, but at the same time they feuded among themselves. The border served mainly to complicate the job of law officers and make escape easier...
Wilmot played stellar defense for the Crimson the last three years and was drafted first by the New York Cosmos professional team which termed him "the best defenseman and the best collegiate in this crop of seniors." The Englishman was an All-American selection and unanimous All-Ivy pick...
...with bated breath for Michael York to appear, as he finally did, his beautiful boxer's nose suspiciously sniffing Berlin's decadent 1930's air: after all, who is Michael York? Many things to many people in "Something for Everyone." A few might remember him as a stereotypical young Englishman, latent homosexuality personified, Oxford-accented to perfection, in several of his other roles. Or as another one of those striking Zeffirelli faces in that director's visually stunning renditions of Shakespeare. For most Americans he seems to drew a blank. Who was I to react to enthusiastically...
...that Europeans accept tax bites that would numb Americans. Though partly warped by differences in purchasing power, some comparisons are enlightening. An unmarried German worker earning $5,000 a year pays about $1,500 in income and social taxes; a single American earning about the same pays $800. An Englishman who is married, has two children and earns $12,000 a year has income taxes of $3,257. An American in the same category pays $2,154. Europeans also pay savage excise levies: 400 on a gallon of gasoline in Germany v. about 120 in the U.S. The English...