Word: naming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family name is spelled with only one r owing to an 18th century heraldic error...
...book by Journalist Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason, claimed that there had been a "fourth man" in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby spy ring of the 1940s and early 1950s. Boyle, who apparently drew heavily on sources formerly in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, even hinted broadly at his name, prompting questions from Labor members in Parliament. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replied with a written statement that essentially admitted it was all true. There had been a fourth spy, and he had confessed to British intelligence in 1964. He was Sir Anthony Blunt, an art historian...
Fishermen have always called it Georges Bank. The origin of its name is obscure, possibly tracing to one of the British kings of colonial times. But its status is clear: it is one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Located in a West Virginia-sized patch of the Atlantic continental shelf, it harbors a cornucopia of yellowtail, cod and haddock, lobsters and scallops, swordfish and squid-some 200 species in all. Supporting a $1 billion a year fishing industry, it provides 17% of America's saltwater catch, 14% of the world...
...inflation in the U.S.S.R., nor does any exist today." Now let us all laugh, comrades. The East bloc, like the West, is suffering a severe dose of rapidly rising consumer prices. It is not called inflation but "an adjustment in the state pricing structure." Inflation by any other name stinks as badly...
...there, also collects weapons for the Provisional I.R.A. He led a recent visitor to a nearby cellar, where he had hidden half a dozen M-16 rifles and a footlocker full of land mines. The cache was being held for a confederate ("I'm not sure of his name, but I think it's Casey"), who would smuggle the arms to Northern Ireland...