Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duty." Well, did that mean miniskirts? Not at all. In Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair of good-looking hip-huggers and a Dutch-boy cap. What's more, says Anne, after boarding school she wants to go to Sussex University, one of Britain's new non-snob colleges...
Born. To Sir Laurence Olivier, 59, No. 1 flower of Britain's theater knighthood, and Joan Plowright, 36, his actress wife: their third child, second daughter; in Hove, Sussex...
...Hours to Doom, the 1958 book from which the movie Dr. Strangelove was taken, a onetime R.A.F. navigator who wrote the original as a deadly serious account of nuclear war by accident, then helped Producer Stanley Kubrick turn it into satire; by his own hand (shotgun); in Sussex, England...
...Britain's state-supported schools; the report suggests that some of the money should go instead to enlarging the faculty. In effect, Oxford prefers to continue educating boys from private preparatory schools and leave the education of others to the red brick colleges and such new universities as Sussex and Essex. All of this lends credence to a recent howl by an undergraduate magazine that Oxford is "a piece of the medieval world in which few earn their keep and in which idleness, frivolity, conceit, class prejudice, petty politics and corruption are rife...
...known in the U.S. as the rhetorician who slew the dragon of verbosity, first with his bestselling plea for simple language, Plain Words (1954), and last year for his revision of the classic Fowler's Modern English Usage, which preserves its original charm; of cancer; in Midhurst, Sussex...