Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that they could not guarantee his safety "because of the discontent and agitation provoked by events in Katanga." When Hammarskjold heard the news, his only reaction was to stare vacantly in the direction of an Indian pipe drum band, which was playing Over the Sea to Skye-a Scottish funeral dirge...
Died. The Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon, 59, look-alike younger brother of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, a Scottish-descended* investment banker who ran Britain's World War II Political Warfare Mission to the U.S.; of a heart attack; at Birkhall, Scotland...
...Canadian identity, says Johnson, is not nearly so frail as the nationalists think it is. "If it were true that economic integration leads to a loss of identity, how could one explain the survival of minority and regional groups such as the Scottish and Welsh in England?" Rather than hasten U.S.-Canadian union, argues Johnson, an even closer economic integration of the two countries would only improve Canadian living standards, and thus give Canada the means to follow its own political and social course...
...mixer for Scotch whisky called, surprisingly enough, Scotch water. Canned from springs on the Scottish east coast, near Forfar, the soft water is the same as that used in the whisky itself, is being shipped to the U.S. by Lambs Strathmore Springs...
...somewhat priggish and admits that "sex was never my strong subject." The other man is a brilliant scientist who is also a cad and a workmanlike seducer. These characters might result in a story as obvious and predictable as any triangle, but with a special kind of emotional geometry, Scottish Author James Kennaway has arrived at a taut, arresting and convincing novel...