Word: waterloos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the Peninsular War, and later through a modest role at Waterloo and a quiet five years on garrison in the isles of Greece, Private William Wheeler of the 51st Regiment wrote long letters to his family back in Somerset. Such tales they told, and with such a wit and ardor, that the family kept and read them for a Sunday treat during more than a century after the old soldier's death (he contracted leprosy in Greece). In 1949 the letters came by chance to the eye of a British publisher, were printed, and promptly acclaimed...
...classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo and the martyrs of Peterloo (hundreds of hungry English weavers shot down by the militia for protesting their working conditions). Shelley wrote: "I Met Murder on the way-He had a Mask like Castlereagh." In 1822, in a fit of depression, Castlereagh slit his throat with a penknife...
Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), great practitioner of cruiser diplomacy, bulldozed British prestige to its highest level since Waterloo. Three times in office (for a total of 16 years), he was disliked by underlings, whom he bullied, but was popular with the public, to whom he was "Old Pam." Under Old Pam a belligerent Britain invaded the Crimea to keep the Russians out of Turkey, annexed Hong Kong, elbowed the French away from Egypt. He disliked everything un-British; the Americans were "swaggering bullies...
...long last, Tom wangled leave to visit his wife. Last week, Ada was waiting with their 42-year-old daughter at Waterloo Station, as a heavily mustached man of 71 elbowed through the crowd leaving an incoming train. Ada prodded her daughter. "That's Dad," she said. Tom planted a quick kiss on his wife. "Hello, love," he said. "How've you been...
...Moon Is Blue. Barbara Bel Geddes brightening a gay formula comedy of Boy-Meets-Girl, Girl-Meets-Wolf, Wolf-Meets-Waterloo (TIME, March...