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Word: inglesa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkably few reports of personal mistreatment of either Britons or Americans living in Argentina, the signs of ill feeling were unmistakable. The Argentine magazine Tal Cual lampooned British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a "pirate, witch and assassin." Radio stations were playing fewer English and American records. The Franco Inglesa, one of Buenos Aires' fashionable pharmacies, last week pointedly dropped the Inglesa. Fearing an increase of hostility, the U.S. embassy last week recommended that "nonessential" members of its 95-person staff and some dependents of diplomatic officials leave the country temporarily. A few U.S. companies were taking similar steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falklands: A Blue-and-White Frenzy | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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