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Word: wellingborough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deputy Labor Leader George Brown had to run a gantlet through Wellingborough public schoolboys with Tory leaflets stuck in their boaters, who chanted "rubbish" every time he opened his mouth. "I take it for granted that you're an expert on it," he shouted back. Brown proved himself no expert on the subtleties of British economic life when he promised that Labor would cut mortgage rates to a ludicrously low 3% from their present 6% levels, which might appeal to house-hungry slum dwellers, but which to most informed Britons would merely sound like confirmation of Sir Alec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Anybody's Race | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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