Word: bannockburn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because it was a draft, but because it was English. After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration. In 1944 he ran gallantly, although unsuccessfully, for Parliament on a platform of. roughly, "Remember Bannockburn." More or less in the spirit of things, he published, while lecturing at Aberdeen University, something called The Aidd Aberdeen Courant and Neo-Caledonian Spasmodical. But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans, a braw dialect of lowland Scots, little known today to Scots who are not classicists...
...such a lapse can be pardoned in a young scholar; even Sellar & Yeatman, in 1066, failed to give sufficient attention to the tactics of Alfred the Cake at Bannockburn...