Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Princess Margaret laid aside her mink coat, put on a white overall and helmet, descended a quarter-mile into a coal mine near Nottingham. Chipping off a lump of coal with a pickax, she said: "I'll have to get this mounted!" When a cutting machine wafted some coal dust into her mouth, the miners beamed as the princess cried, "It tastes delicious...
...author of this subversive piece uses every device at his command to paint a grim picture of capitalism in the person of the Sheriff of Nottingham. We are told that he lives in splendor from the immense sums he extorts from the other bourgoisic. There is the implication that he profits directly from the labors of others...
...last week hopes of renewed glory were rising across the land. In Nottingham, playing the first of five test matches with the fearsome Australians. England's team had achieved a draw when rain halted play. But weather notwithstanding, Britons began to see England as the Aussies' equal for the first time in 20 years. For one thing, Australia is now without its famed batsman, the retired Sir Don Bradman. And against Australia's great Bowler Ray Lindwall, who can take his 20-yd. running start and fling the ball at close to 90 m.p.h.. England could...
...quiet, lazy Sunday morning last October, Jack Bamford, a boy apprentice miner, was awakened in the Bamford cottage in Newthorpe, near Nottingham, by the acrid smell of wood smoke. He roused his dad, who is a miner. They ran downstairs into a roaring fire at the foot of the stairway, and together rescued Mrs. Bamford and three of the children. Then they remembered Brian, 6, and Roy, 4. They were trapped in Jack's back bedroom; and the second floor was in flames. Father wrapped himself in a blanket and tried to rush upstairs, but fell back before...
Last week, as he lay in a Nottingham hospital, Jack got a crested letter which began: "Her Majesty has been pleased to award you the George Cross...