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...will tell you in Lake Forest that Desbarats is not just a place but a way of life?a life of complete simplicity, where everyone wears old clothes, sleeps in an iron bed, and uses bottled gas for lights and cooking. Desbarats makes a fetish of rusticity bordering on hardship. Most of the cabins do have indoor toilets and wash basins now, but a few of the some 85 island dwellers who have also put in bathtubs are looked upon as softies. Sailing is by far the leading activity in the islands, and the impressive-sounding North Channel Yacht Club...
...which stood a simple, white stone monument, 10 ft. wide and 5 ft. high. Shaded by a hawthorne tree and overlooking the Thames, it bears a passage from Kennedy's inaugural address: "Let every nation know that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, or oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and success of liberty...
Royal Yokel. In that time an arrogant young upstart was transformed into a chastened commander with an inglorious but practical strategy: fight in small detachments, hit and run, scorch the earth, demolish captured castles. In a single year of maniacal activity and stunning hardship, Bruce reconquered two-thirds of Scotland and during the next five years he successively reduced almost all the major English fortresses north of the border. "On any showing," says Historian Barrow, "this must be reckoned one of the great military enterprises of British history...
...point the HSA's case is arguable. The withdrawal of the British Overseas Airways Corporation from the charter market undoubtedly caused the Charter Flights Agency a great deal of hardship. The HSA has always obtained its planes from University Travel Service, and UTS has always dealt exclusively with BOAC. This year, bargaining with reluctant and unfamiliar companies, the UTS probably incurred higher prices...
...reckoning is at hand, Lord Cromer told a gathering of Scottish bankers in Edinburgh. The $3 billion international rescue that saved the Brit ish pound last November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presaged swift victory in 1940." If the government is to prevent hardship for every British family, he said, it must quickly and decisively put its house in order by boosting productivity and cutting back on its spending schemes. Said he: "I only hope we face up to this need whilst there is still time...