Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea that The Machine is pure evil, and should be destroyed. (This idea was first expressed by a village idiot, Ned Ludd, who stalked around Nottingham, England, in the late 18th Century, smashing stocking frames...
When Tom Blower looks at the sea, every wave seems to be flinging a challenge at him. In 1937 Tom, who is a strapping Nottingham mill hand, answered by swimming the English Channel in 13 hours 29 minutes, the fourth best time on record. That was not enough for Tom. No man had ever swum the Irish Sea; he decided to be the first...
Weaker Sex. In Nottingham, England, Thomas Albert Morley came home one night, manfully announced: "I'm boss from now on." Thereupon his wife 1) pushed him over a chair, 2) kicked him, 3) cut his arm with a knife, 4) cut him under the eye with a well-aimed teapot, 5) threatened to kill...
...Among them: Philosopher Bertrand Russell; London Publisher Lord Lay ton; the Very Reverend W. .R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's; the Right Reverend Edward Ellis, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham...
That left 15. In the shivering crowd around the mine's entrance, 13 new widows and their 31 children began the lament Plymouth had heard after two other Nottingham explosions-in 1890 (eight dead) and in 1910 (seven dead). While gas-masked rescuers battled for their bodies, the names of the dead-Craynik, Parker, Zonobrowski, Bockus, Wilde, Ostrowski, Lewis-ran through the dark like a sigh...