Word: lis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cricket, Too. His memoir is not merely a chronicle of a shy boy's woes. Orwell recognized that even in unhappy circumstances boys find ways to be happy, and lis story is brightened with recollections of butterfly hunts and cricket games that read as well as his darker pages...
Oklahoma's new law making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...
...left of the case is pinned the royal banner of fleur de lis which Lafayette carried leading his French troops under General Washington during the American Revolution...
Parliamentary corridors buzzed with rumors that Nye Bevan meant to make good lis threat to resign from the cabinet. Most Tories scoffed; from their opposition benches they needled the Minister of Labor-"the main advocate of waste and extravagance of all forms." Cracked Conservative M.P. Osbert Peake: "The Chancellor . . . has succeeded where his predecessors all failed; and even if the Chancellor has not yet succeeded in deflating our swollen economy, he has well and ruly disinflated the pouter pigeon of the Treasury dovecote...