Word: ramsay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramsay MacDonald...
...mind first turned to science. He loved to take the family car to pieces and put it together again. After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London...
...Actually, Britain's first Labor Cabinet, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, was in power from January till October...
...British are nationalizing their electricity. We nationalized ours years & years ago, or a vast part of it. ... (Ramsay MacDonald, here in the 1920s, said we had more socialism than England.) . . . Mr. Attlee nationalized the Bank of England; it is no more nationalized than our Bank of Canada. Also, haven't we a nationalized radio . . . not to speak of complete control of our wheat marketing, nationalized steamships, plus all sorts of other controls...
...Nottinghamshire miner named Harold Larwood caused an international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded. (The Australian Government complained to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans...