Word: scotland
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...Scotland's Bay City Rollers...
...victims in England as well as in the troubled province of Ulster. Late last week a bomb exploded in the London Hilton Hotel, killing two people, wounding 28, and destroying the glass-and-marble lobby. It was the fifth bombing in or around London in the past two weeks. Scotland Yard believes that radical members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army are responsible for most if not all of the explosions...
...started to whistle the national anthem" before the princess could hang up. Though Buckingham Palace spokesmen dismissed the business as a simple case of "nuisance calls" and denied that Anne herself had actually heard the prankster, police confirmed that there had indeed been some "deep breathing" on the line. Scotland Yard launched an investigation, and the Department of Industry set a trap for the mysterious caller...
...Smith described himself as an agonizingly slow workman "who do and undo everything I write at least half a dozen times before I can be tolerably pleased with it." He worked out most of the wording on solitary walks along the windswept shores near his home town of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, then often dictated the results to an amanuensis. He finally published the work in March 1776, under the mouth-filling title An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, and thereby laid the intellectual foundations of capitalism...
...made the key observation in their young lives, namely that "no one could sing Elton's songs like he could." So he gave them ?20 a week, plus a little more to replace his presumptive star's ripped jeans, and sent him forth to conquer first Scotland, then the world...