Word: britons
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...asked one baffled Briton, "do Americans wear braces as well as a belt...
...week's end one pin-striped Briton, exhausted by the U.S. hustle & bustle, nevertheless got the point of it all. Said he: "When you think of it, there was nothing very new in what they told us. But what a performance! What zest...
...Standard had failed to point out what every politically literate Briton knew: that Strachey had repudiated Stalinism after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 and has attacked it many times since then. Attlee issued a government statement calling the Standard's attack "disgraceful...
...read it; his wife had just given birth to a son, weight 3½ kilograms. Somehow, Argentina's ever-alert federal police got hold of a copy of the cable; their gimlet eyes lingered long over the word "dynamite." Kirton, after all, was a foreigner- a Brazilian-born Briton. And he owned a ranch in Gualeguaychú in Entre Rios Province, just across the river from Uruguay-mighty handy for smuggling dynamite...
...average Briton is likely to assume that the government at the wheel must be to blame for these recurring jolts. But then his memory of each jolt tends to fade quickly as soon as the road gets smoother. The task of the Conservatives in this election is to make vivid recall of these crises to show, if they can, that they were blunders characteristic of Labor's rule...