Word: scotswoman
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...promise made and understood here is, of course, that the reader is in the hands of a fine storyteller, whose tale, after many turnings, will end as it should. The turnings are traditional. The title figure, a beautiful, not very experienced young Scotswoman, arrives in London to work in the war effort. She and the pilot, Peter Gregory, meet and have a brief, rather restrained romance. Then he disappears on a flight to provision a Resistance group...
Consider Evelyn Glennie, a small, vivacious Scotswoman who has been "profoundly deaf" since she was 12. Glennie is a full-time percussion soloist -- the only one in the classical field -- and one of today's brightest young stars on any instrument. "People have the wrong idea about deafness," says Glennie, 28, currently in the midst of an American concert tour that is taking her to Cincinnati, Washington and Cleveland. "They think you live in a world of total silence, but that isn't the way it works...
...were to inherit his fortune, they must promise never to return to Europe to live or marry Europeans. Fortunately for Prince Charles, Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, the elder of Fanny's twin sons, defied his grandfather and returned to Britain to claim the Fermoy title. His marriage, to Scotswoman Ruth Sylvia Gill, produced Frances Ruth Burke Roche. And her marriage to Edward John Spencer, which ended in divorce in 1969, produced Lady Diana Spencer, the United Kingdom's one-eighth American future queen...
...human animal is goaded by twin appetites so similar that they serve as metaphors for each other-as food writers and Freudians are well aware. Reay Tannahill, a worldly and well-informed Scotswoman, has explored what recorded history tells about both, following Food in History (1973) with this levelheaded history of sex, drawn from sources as various as genetics, architecture, sociology, religion and etymology. As she tells it, the explosive word has a dual connotation: what people do with their private parts, and a 10,000-year-old injustice to women...
...past, and that both Steptoe and Edwards have publicly denied receiving money from any newspaper for exclusive stories about their work. Indeed, some of the critics may have been taken aback when, soon after Steptoe's award was withdrawn, British newspapers reported, and Edwards confirmed, that Scotswoman Grace Montgomery, 32, is due to give birth to a test-tube baby in mid-February. Its laboratory godfathers: Steptoe and Edwards...