Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maltese, Genoese and Moroccan immigrants whom the British encouraged to settle there. A tough, cocky breed, the citizens of Britain's only European crown colony speak breakneck English and a kind of cockney Spanish, follow British soccer as avidly as the bullfights, and pride themselves on their stiff upper lips, the view from their 1,400-ft.-high peak (Africa is only 20 miles across the straits), and the fact that the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home was one of the best governors they ever...
...ever a stiff upper lip was called for, this was it. In the first test of the best of-seven series, Constellation had trounced Sovereign by 5 min. 34 sec., leading every foot of the way around the 24.3-mile triangular course. It could hardly get any worse-but it did. In the second race, with crashing seas and a stiff, 20-knot breeze, Connie went out and humiliated Sovereign, winning by the widest margin in modern America's Cup history...
...middle of June, the University joined a campaign against a proposed Commonwealth Edison plant to be built in upper New York state. If Con Ed goes through with its plans to build the hydro-electric power project in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, the University will lose slightly more than 200 acres of its Black Rock Forest...
They are the other half (they would say, if they ever thought about you: the upper half). Do not be afraid of them. Some of them, after all, went to prep school on scholarships; many of them are as bright and as willing to work as you; a few may even share your naive honesty. From others there is actually something to learn: that talking need not be a void and a sin; that grades and teachers' approval are not all-valuable; that polish can be pleasant. Do not be reluctant to learn from those who will teach...
...year allowance from her father was hardly enough for two in Upper Bohemia, so Leonard turned to part-time journalism ("the opiate of the artist; eventually it poisons his mind and his art") and other odd jobs to help pay the bills. But in those golden pre-World War I days, even young socialists supported a cook and maid. For the Woolfs there were also to be such contingent expenses as the four nurses required during Virginia's breakdowns...