Word: trousers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What's the difference between nether garments and trousers in Scotland?" asked schoolmasterish Henry Strauss, Tory member for Combined English Universities. "Kilts!" shouted a Socialist backbencher, and the Sassenachs laughed again. But it was the Scots who had the last laugh after all, for the English, who had no kilts to fall back on, were themselves having trouser trouble...
...troubled him 60 years before, and when their playing of it did not suit him, he turned to the cellists with a look of contained rage that was as effective as a blow-off would have been. Other times, in dissatisfaction, he slapped his baton fitfully against his trouser...
...rush in on the single, unarmed blasphemer. He was dragged out of the meeting hall more dead than alive. A LIFE photographer who recorded the scene (see cut) was cornered by the angry crowd and forced to surrender his films temporarily; he managed to hide one in his trouser pocket...
...Murray Bay, Quebec, decorous Senator Robert A. Taft, who would soon tour the West to learn how he looked to them out there as a presidential candidate, took off his coat, set a vacationist's hat squarely on his head, turned up his trouser cuffs, and did his earnest best (for photographers) to look like a happy-go-lucky golfer...
...That thing" was Helgoland-the tiny, mile-long island, 28 miles north of Germany. In 1890, when Britain traded it to the Germans for Zanzibar and a chunk of continental Africa, it was considered a fine swap. "Like getting a whole suit of clothes for a single trouser button," crowed famed African Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. By 1914 the Kaiser had spent $80 million turning Helgoland into an "unsinkable battleship...