Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dentists went on strike in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire. They wanted higher health-insurance payments (from $25.50 to $42) for installing false teeth...
...Liberal Party began to decline, Lloyd George lost power, became Britain's premier Elder Statesman. He still spoke with authority-but only for himself. In time his white-thatched, black-caped figure appeared less & less often in London, more & more often on his Surrey and Caernarvonshire estates. But World War II brought him to his feet in Commons to give Prime Minister Chamberlain a piece of his mind for sending the Finns "too little and too late...
...protege. Ambassador Patterson visited the King day after day, trying to explain that the U.S. had not expected and now deplored his breaking with Tito just before the second Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting. Peter swallowed his pride and consulted his displeased parent, Queen Mother Marie. At Egham House in Surrey, Mr. Subasich had an emotional session with the King and the ladies of the royal family: Queen Mother Marie; Peter's young wife, pregnant Queen Alexandra; and her mother, Greek Princess Aspasia...
...quiet Surrey countryside, King Peter went for a quiet walk with his pretty wife, the former Princess Alexandra of Greece, who is expecting an heir to their vanishing throne...
...pawky, pink-faced Nathaniel Gubbins lives with his buxom, red-topped wife, his two daughters, and assorted animals in a cozy house in Surrey which he calls "The Nest." Each week, an army of Britons (including Winston Churchill) regularly read Nat Gubbins' column "Sitting on the Fence" in Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. There Britain's most popular columnist sets out, through various mouthpiece characters (including himself) his often tart, always British comments on his life and hard times...