Word: scottishly
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Just don't say that to. the Scots, who invented the game almost 500 years ago. Or to the Canadians, who have made it their No. 1 participant sport, with 750,000 players spread across the country. In the old days, stout Scottish farmers slid their rough-hewn stones across the frozen lochs, nipping liberally on the "whisky punch," long a part of curling tradition as "the usual drink in order to encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons...
...best brooms were in Montreal, as teams from eight nations gathered for the tenth world championship. With the whole country watching on TV, Calgary's Ron Northcott rink took aim on the title that Canada has lost only twice-to a U.S. club in 1965 and to a Scottish team from Perth last year...
...hobby and a supreme pleasure." A young corpse a year, with frequent visits to the graves on the moors, kept Ian and Myra reasonably serene but leaves Williams feverishly laying out plot and explication like a row of tombstones.* He points, he nudges, he oohs and ahs in both Scottish and Lancashire accents until prison doors finally clank for keeps on his terrible twosome...
Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...
...trust him more than Winston Churchill, whose rhetorical afflatus invites suspicion that the great man perhaps tended to force history into his own dramatic cast of mind. It was, however, as Churchill's man, his emissary (his "dogsbody" as the English say, or his gillie, as a Scottish laird might say) that Macmillan played a large, though unobtrusive role in the war. He had spent the first 21 exhausting but unrewarding months as parliamentary liaison man with various wartime ministries. He had survived the boredom of the phony war and a bomb in the Carlton Club that might have...