Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might not have been out of place to record a truly remarkable fact concerning three men of outstanding achievement in 20th-century science: John Logic Baird in television, Sir Robert Watson-Watt in radar, and Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. All were born and bred north of the Tweed. This makes them British, but never English...
Boss William Tweed (1860-71) and his henchmen had fleeced New Yorkers of some $200 million while he was Tammany's head. Boss Richard Croker (1886-1901) continued the Tammany rule that Lincoln Steffens described as "government of the people, by the rascals, for the rich." Boss Charles Murphy was the last successful leader of the old Tammany. When
...honor, Scots hate to admit it. They profess grave doubt that their 1707 union with England is a good thing. They bristle at small slights. It rankles that some English ministries call their Scotland representatives "Regional Controllers," that the Festival of Britain brochures chopped off Scotland at the Tweed, that the English refuse to admit that Queen Elizabeth is only Elizabeth I in Scotland and coronation posters trace her lineage from the first Queen Elizabeth -"meaning she's directly descended exclusively from a virgin queen, I suppose," said one Scot scornfully. "No mention of Mary, Queen of Scots...
They were obviously energetic. In fact, they were determined. When they swept through the dining room door, the one in blue tweed had a card table tucked under one arm, a bunch of placards under the other, and a ballpoint pen in each hand. His friend were a dark brown jacket, glasses, and a briefcase. He walked very fast...
...everything right down here beside the door," the one in brown commanded. "Now they'll just have to go past us to get anything to cat." As the blue tweed struggled over the card table's legs, the one is brown sorted the placards...