Word: saxonizes
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...felt the contents of this book made it particularly suitable for large scale sales," said Sales Manager Mac Saxon. The book deals with the use of the fifth amendment as a legal device and protection, particularly before investigation committees...
...articles [Oct. 11 et seq.] On the anti-segregation disturbances . . .certainly must be edifying to non-American readers the world over, especially here in the Middle East, where the inhabitants' skin color is usually a shade or two darker than those lofty-browed Anglo-Saxon types in the photographs accompanying your [Oct. 11] article . . . What a profound impression this must make-these Americans, always broadcasting about freedom and equality and the "American way of life" and what a great little country we are . . . As an American living abroad, I find myself wondering about my countrymen, especially that superior breed...
...brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee"), rescued Katherine and saw her safely married to the knight. But soon John, too, was panting after her. Eventually, she presented John with four bouncing bastards...
...Derived from the Greek "orrhus" and Anglo-Saxon "aers...
...also a simple man. And goodness and simplicity are a couple of tough customers ... In this country, battered and squeezed as no victorious nation has ever been before and disillusioned almost beyond endurance, he has been welcomed with an exuberance that almost makes us blush behind our precious Anglo-Saxon reserve. I never thought that friendliness had such a sharp cutting edge. I never thought that simplicity could cudgel us so damned hard. We live and learn...