Word: tristram
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...lasting love of fine writing and he did it by the casual and then unconventional method of simply spreading a dozen or more books in front of me, saying. "Take them along, read any that interest you and ignore the rest. "From Francis learned to love oddities like Tristram Shandy's My Uncle Toby and to enjoy the wit and wisdom of Henry Fowler's Modern English Usage...
...travel-agency clerk and a shop girl meeting daily in an unused hall bathroom of a commercial hotel. It is an ample facility where the couple picnic, frolic in the tub and plan their future before catching the train home: she to her mother, he to a randy wife. Tristram and Isolde as commuters in a tiled cave of love is an entertaining conception. Trevor does more; he dignifies the lovers with a deep understanding of their passions and the mundane force that must inevitably cool them...
...good. Nor, despite considerable hinting from several quarters, does he agree that Python humor has evolved in any particular way since its creators started dabbling in the commercial feature-film world. For him the most important comic influence remains the English tradition springing from the likes of Tristram Shandy, and after that the "goon shows" of early radio and the comic compilation Beyond the Fringe...
Wilson ordered about 100 members of his advance party to rush ahead in helicopters, securing both Fitzroy and the nearby settlement of Bluff Cove. The small British contingents held the position for about two days, while other units of the Fifth boarded the Sir Galahad and the Sir Tristram at Port San Carlos to join them. When the ships reached Fitzroy, they began unloading men and equipment. In effect, the British had a second beachhead on East Falkland...
...least two bombs hit the Sir Galahad. The Sir Tristram was raked with cannon and rocket fire. According to Michael Nicholson, a British television correspondent who witnessed the attack on the Sir Galahad from ashore, "boxes of ammunition aboard exploded, shaking the ground beneath us, and soldiers crouched as bullets from the ship whistled past." Hundreds of men rushed along the decks of both ships, pulling on life jackets and leaping into water that was sometimes aflame with burning oil. Bright orange life rafts were thrown into the sea; some immediately burst into flame as they were hit by debris...