Word: linstead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night Her Majesty's legislators indulged their capacity for capriciousness in a more serious way. When the House of Commons was all but empty. Tory Backbencher Hugh Linstead tried to forward a concern of his own and moved a prayer* against the government's easing of restrictions on imported glassware. Later Linstead tried to withdraw the motion, but the Laborites seized on the absence of his fellow Tories to force a vote. Not expecting any important business to come up, most of the Tories had scattered far & wide, and many of them had been careless about being...
...guests have an unusual propensity for breaking legs. Even his wife was unable to escape this jinx. One of his most prized possessions is a framed letter from Eliot Perkins, Master of Lowell House, in which Perkins takes full responsibility for breaking the leg of Reginald P. Linstead, famed English scientist who accompanied Kistiakowsky and Perkins on a skiing expedition about ten years...
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