Word: scot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unlikely sort of hero, a brownish-haired little (about 5 ft. 5 in.) Scot with a murderous temper, the boudoir morals of a tomcat, and a colossal ego. He toadied to his superiors, fought with his peers, and would never give credit to his juniors when he could claim it for himself. He fancied himself as a freedom-loving "citizen of the world," yet ended up drawing his sword for a despot. But John Paul Jones could certainly do one thing: he could fight a ship as have few men before or since-and Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S.N.R...
...jets, the answer is still unclear and the problem increasingly acute. To date, in the absence of international agreement, offenders have been prosecuted by arrangements (sometimes of questionable legality) between the individual countries involved, or have gone scot-free because no court could decide on jurisdiction...
...months, don't leave your car unattended, and keep your hand on your wallet." Under the fourth general amnesty since 1945, signed into law by President Giovanni Gronchi last week, some 15,000 convicted criminals-and perhaps as many as 100,000 offenders still unsentenced-will walk scot-free out of Italy's jails. Unlike a pardon, which wipes out the penalty, an amnesty expunges the crime. The categories of criminals admitted to amnesty last week included libelers, common thieves, tax evaders, those who have offered "offenses to the head of the state," first offenders serving no more...
That did it. The two-hour trial was over; Andrew God got off scot-free, and not even Bilko's Colonel Hall should have been surprised. "The whole thing may seem ridiculous to someone outside the Army," suggested a press officer superfluously last week, as he tried to explain the strange turns of the Army's crunching, newfangled wheels of justice. How ridiculous, indeed, only God knew...
Probably the most unlikely moneyman ever appointed to the high post of secretary of the Bank of England was a tall, genial, walrus-mustached Scot who much preferred to spend his time on the bank of the Thames. The Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, with a comfortable ?40 million worth of bullion in her vaults toward the end of the last century, could well afford an officer who set records for short hours and long absences (due to illness), occupied himself with punting, sculling and solitary walks. It was another activity that made his fellow Citymen uncomfortable: Kenneth Grahame...