Word: englishmen
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...that the two nations have exchanged places in the hierarchy of world power since World War II, and Britain has replaced the bemused hauteur with which it peered across the Atlantic in the 19th and early 20th centuries with a current admixture of dread and regret. What many Englishmen said after the war (and still say, to some degree) is that savage, sprawling America was amusing enough when it was a bulky, sleeping animal, but now that it has grown to a global monster, civilization will go to the hogs. This is the dark side of the days when Oscar...
While going about their business, innocent Englishmen and Irishmen have been killed and disfigured by terrorists...
...conventional view that modern wars decide nothing, and that, in any case, individuals have no effect on their outcome. Toland cannot manage the magic of historic imagination that will make a reader really believe, as many Frenchmen and Englishmen believed in 1918, that the Germans were about to win the war. But it is hard to read his book without concluding that the course of these sprawling, murderous battles was often changed by individuals or small groups of men, whose sense of honor, courage, comradeship or simple professional efficiency drove them to extreme effort. Toland's most touching example...
...story begins with Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister. Englishmen had had country houses before Walpole, of course, but it was he, in the 1720s and '30s. who first used one to bring men together to mix fun and politics. "Up to the chin in beef, venison, geese, turkeys, etc.," wrote one of the guests at Walpole's stag affairs, "and generally over the chin in claret, strong beer and punch." As roads and transportation improved, being a guest became more convenient. Women joined the fun, and the weekend house party began its long and bleary-eyed...
...British are also planning a demonstration-and it could prove the most dazzling of the Games: the 1,500-meter race, featuring Englishmen Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett. Astonishingly, they have met only once before. In an 800-meter duel in 1978, they exhausted each other with kamikaze sprints, only to be passed by a third runner in the stretch. In Moscow, Coe is favored at 800 meters, and Ovett is given a nanosecond edge in the 1,500. Jim Tuppeny, a U.S. track official who is organizing an alternate meet in Philadelphia this month, handicaps the 1,500 this...