Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul seemed to me the epitome of the new China--he spoke English fluently, had been to college and, he told me proudly, had a library of over 500 American books. He was newly married and his wife was expecting a child in two months...
From local tour guides, from the owners of private stores, from everyone, it seemed, who spoke English, I heard the phrase "after the Cultural Revolution." The four most oft-repeated words of my stay in China became a metaphor for the vast changes the country is undergoing, for the experiences of suffering which bind the people together and for the limited extent to which I was capable of communicating with the Chinese people...
British and West German officials began exchanging information on the most violent offenders months ago in preparation for last week's eight-nation tournament. After the first match between England and Ireland in Stuttgart on June 12, which Ireland won 1-0, some 20 English thugs beat up a 22-year-old Egyptian resident, slicing him with a broken bottle. Before the evening ended, 107 people, most of them English, had been detained by police for drunkenness and fighting...
...rowdies roamed through Dusseldorf's cavernous main railroad station, drinking and gearing up for the game. When a trainload of German fans arrived, the station quickly became a battleground of fistfights and splintered chairs. Miraculously, there were no serious injuries, but 130 were arrested, about 90 of them English. This time, said Dusseldorf Police Chief Hans Lisken, "the English were not the instigators. The Germans started...
True enough. By midweek Thatcher, Sports Minister Colin Moynihan and other Cabinet ministers had drawn up a five point proposal. Among the suggestions: travel restrictions on convicted hooligans, further clampdowns on admission to matches at home, and the withdrawal of English national teams from Continental ) play, perhaps even from the 1990 World Cup in Rome. For its part the U.E.F.A. announced last week that the club competition ban against England would continue. The louts had bashed any argument that might have been made to end the proscription...