Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a modern city dweller who lives under a pall of smog, smokes incessantly, worries about fallout and sprays his flowers with pesticides, possible causes of cancer seem to close in on all sides. "It pleases many to think of cancer as a necessary concomitant of civilization," says Scottish Physician C. S, Muir, "a penalty to be paid for the abandonment of the rustic simplicity of a bygone age, a toll to be exacted for the convenience of the automobile and the pleasures of the cigarette." Even doctors dream of some remote part of Africa or Asia, "where, removed from...
...Jimmy won 20 races and the Scottish Speed championship. Two years later, he signed a pro contract with Colin Chapman's Lotus factory team...
Conversion at 8. Balliol began as a penance imposed on John of Balliol, a Scottish baron who kidnaped a bishop in a dispute over land, and to make amends endowed a hostel for 16 indigent scholars at Oxford. The resulting college went on to harbor such notables as John Wycliffe and Adam Smith, but its star did not really rise until the advent of Benjamin Jowett, the great classicist who took over as master in 1870, molding men and minds for 23 years...
Perhaps what the England of Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward needs is a touch of old Scotland. Judging by the archaic language of the Scottish Bigamy Act (1551), few offenders are more frowned upon than "thame that maryis twa sindrie wyfis or husbandis levand togiddir undervorsit [undivorced]." Under the act, punishment of such culprits is fixed at "confiscatioun of all theair gudis mouabill of their persounis for yeir and day." Also, they may "neuer habill to bruke [never again bear] office of honour, dignitie nor benefice...
...happens, this harsh treatment has not been meted out for monny a year lang syne, but the Scots' ancient law is still on the books. Last week, along with 166 other cobwebbed statutes adopted by the Scottish kingdom before it joined England in 1707, the law was being repealed in the British Parliament...