Word: trafalgar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activist groups, it has been felt in virtually every community in the province. The movement's Belfast office is papered with letters and telegrams of support. "We are not here to provide the climate for a new political initiative," McKeown told 10,500 backers in London's Trafalgar Square last week. "We are the political initiative...
...when a small English and French peace-keeping fleet aroused the suspicion of a large Turkish fleet at Navarino. The Turks, who had never learned gunnery, opened fire. They were cut to pieces, and the Sultan's domination came to an end. Author Howarth, an English naval historian (Trafalgar: The Nelson Touch), writes of it all wonderingly, although not flippantly. His book is good mean fun for readers who are tired of the posturings of warriors and statesmen - then...
...were actually sighted coatless on London streets as temperatures stubbornly hovered near 90° each day, and a beat-the-heat letter to the London Times suggested that since Romans were known for their dignity, perhaps gentlemen should switch to togas. Switching to topless bathing in the fountains of Trafalgar Square, however, cost three young ladies a police summons. Even the royal family was having trouble keeping its cool, since neither Buckingham Palace nor Windsor Castle is air-conditioned. Said a palace spokesman: "All we can do is to throw open all the windows and try not to think about...
Paris Match called the idea a "new Trafalgar," and reported (probably inaccurately) that $1 billion had flowed out of France toward Switzerland in the one day after the bill was proposed. The powerful Socialist and Communist opposition parties condemned the measure for containing too many loopholes favoring the rich. The Communists have even been acting as defenders of middle-class property-especially over the part of Giscard's proposal that calls for taxes on the sale of vacation homes, the résidences secondaires owned by 14 million...
...emergency took hold, the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were dimmed in order to conserve electricity. TIME asked British Satirist and Author Auberon Waugh (son of Novelist Evelyn Waugh) to comment on the mood of the nation in the midst of its latest eco nomic crises. His acerbic reflections, which represent a sig nificant minority opinion in Britain...