Word: limey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to not letting the team down, the "slimey limey" depends on pride as a motive for getting psyched...
...achieve a pastiche of the style of the Master, this effort of Mr. Kanfer's must take the jolly old biscuit. The idea of Jeeves as a club waiter serving "gin stengahs" (whatever they may be) is lamentable. For the rest, your reviewer has unfortunately let his anti-limey prejudices get the better of him, and his cliches and mixed metaphors are too dire for comment...
...Detroit policemen on their downtown beat were ticketing a man peddling rings on the sidewalk. Then up popped this limey photographer who kept snapping away at them. Asked for identification, the fellow could only produce an out-of-date press card. At headquarters, the suspicious cops satisfied themselves that "Tony Charles Snow-down [sic]" was not the peddler's accomplice. They issued him a temporary press card and prepared to let him go. Then someone did a double take. Hastily, Princess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, was whisked into Police Commissioner Philip G. Tannian's office...
There is one group of city dwellers who do not stay at home-the children. They move through the town like the mob in Lord of the Flies, carrying hate on their young-old faces like a bold banner. They wait for soldiers on street corners, flinging crisp insults: "Limey pig...soldier baastids...Up yours," and then bricks and rocks. "You can't shoot a kid, can you?" says a soldier wearing a flak jacket with the inscription CS IS A GAS, a sick pun. "But I know a couple I'd like to ship," meaning deport them...
Buying Time. Many Catholics, however, were even further alienated by the army's action. "Limey bastards!" shouted one Bogside resident on the morning of the attack. Demanded another: "Why don't you go back where you bloody well belong?" The Bogside Community Association charged that residents were being "interned" in their own neighborhoods, and demanded to know "the duration of our sentence." The only immediate reaction from the I.R.A. Provisionals was a cry of defiance. The Proves' Dublin-based chief of staff, Sean MacStiofáin, bragged that I.R.A. tactics had always been to "step aside when...