Word: tyne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stopgap. In Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Mrs. Edna Reed got a divorce after testifying that her husband concluded a family argument by plugging her mouth with a raw herring...
Wages had jumped more than 4% in the past three months, and more demands were on the way. "Another round of wage increases, such as we have had in the last two years, could be disastrous," said Macmillan flatly, in a speech at Newcastle upon Tyne. "I do not use the word lightly. I use it advisedly and with a full sense of responsibility...
...Southwest in Exeter, Devonshire. The British Drama League holds two sessions, one at Chichester August 1 to 15, and the other at Alnwick, August 31 to September 9, on "Drama and the Theater." The University of Durham sponsors a training program for would-be archaeologists at Corbridge-on-Tyne in late July...
...days of the welfare state. Methodism's great 19th century battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and the under paid in the lusty turmoil of the Indus trial Revolution have now been won in the sooty cities of the Midlands, on the docksides of the Tyne and in the slag-heaped valleys of Wales. And Methodist zeal for social betterment is left with such low-calorie crusades as temperance, the discouragement of gambling and the abolition of vulgar postcards from sea side shops...
Towards the end of May, the 16,000-ton Polish luxury liner Batory moved into drydock at Hebburn-on-Tyne. That night the British harbor pilot, Harry Leslie, had dinner with cheery, gold-toothed Captain Jan Cwiklinski in his two-room suite below the bridge. But when Leslie went back on board two weeks later, the captain was missing. "The officers gave me to understand he was sick on shore," he said, "but . . . there was a studied avoidance of any mention...