Word: wigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confrontation with the coal miners and feared that another dark winter might be the prospect if he were returned to 10 Downing Street. Another factor was Heath's personality, or lack of it. "Even his best oratory is about as exciting as a wet evening in Wigan," wrote Editor William Davis in Punch last week. Most days during the campaign Heath looked like someone who had had trouble getting out of bed that morning...
Having served libel writs on the two Tory papers, the Daily Mail and Daily Express, that first printed the charges, Wilson last week took his cause to Commons. He startled some listeners by admitting that he had discussed the land deal, which involved a property near Wigan in northern England, with Field as far back as 1967. "It is difficult for anyone to play golf with someone," he cheerfully explained, "and not know what business he is in." Wilson argued that Field had worked hard to improve the property. He had cleared it of slag heaps (which Britons have dubbed...
...late leftist publisher Vic tor Gollancz subsidized The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell's classic report on wretched British mining conditions. It turned out to be a hot coal indeed. In a pusillanimous preface, Gollancz deplored Orwell's "general dislike of Russia" and added with evident shock: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring to Russian commissars as 'half-gramophones, half-gangsters...
...vastly improved artificial hip has now been devised. Using a replacement hip of his own design and a unique sterilization technique, Surgeon John Charnley, 59, of England's Wrightington Hospital at Wigan, has performed 4,000 hip operations and cut the infection rate among his patients from 4% to .5%. Two major U.S. medical centers, New York's Hospital for Special Surgery and Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, are now performing the operations...