Word: tottenham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, the Wolverhampton Wanderers clinched the English Soccer League title for the first time in their 66 years, downing Tottenham Hotspur...
...sold all their gauze. Mayfair milliners hastily sketched up a line of fashionable "smoggles" in tulle, velvet and chiffon to please the modish dyspneic. One dress designer announced a "bunny mask" modeled on a rabbit's nose and containing a special filter. In the murk outside the Tottenham Court tube station, one Londoner-Shipping Clerk Dennis Michaels, 24, was actually seen wearing a gauze mask. Some passers-by stared and laughed. "How's the operation going, Doc?" called one. Fifteen minutes later, Dennis took off his mask. "It might be all right if everyone wore one," he said...
...dives off Tottenham Court Road and in Soho, in back alleys of the East End, in the slums of Glasgow and Liverpool-all the places where British criminals gather-there was no misunderstanding. They knew well what Derek Bentley's execution meant...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...