Word: britons
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...shocked by the explosions in England and, as a Briton and naturalized U.S. citizen, object strongly to American involvement in these I.R.A. terrorist attacks on the innocent. It is common knowledge that arms and financial aid to the I.R.A. are sent by Americans, and with an ease that smacks of turning a blind...
...rich and strange. The British have long claimed that the place was probably first sighted in 1592 by Captain John Davis, whose ship named Desire was driven off course by what he called "a sore storme" and found haven "among certaine isles never before discovered." Two years later, another Briton, Sir Richard Hawkins, proclaimed the islands "Hawkins' Maiden-land" in honor of Queen Elizabeth I and "in a perpetual memory of her chastitie." Some maintain, however, that Magellan's expedition first sighted the islands in 1520. Others speculate that the discoverer was an anonymous Viking, or even a roving Fijian...
...first mariner who kept a record of actually landing there was yet another Briton, John Strong, who arrived in 1690 and artfully named the place after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Falkland, who never came near the islands. Strong was gratified at the friendly reception by what a shipmate called "the inhabitants, such as they were [i.e., the penguins]. Being mustered in infinite numbers on a rock," he wrote, "upon some of our men landing, they stood, viewed and then seemed to salute them with a great many graceful bows, with the same gestures, equally expressing their curiosity...
...title role is taken by an animal thought to be extinct by the Zenkalis, an innocent and exploitable people. Their belief is shared by a young Briton, Peter Foxglove, sent to the island by his venal uncle, Sir Osbert, in order to pave the way for a military port and airstrip. But in classic anticolonial style, he crosses over to side with the natives. Peter's conversion is aided by a cast variegated in color and comedy: a king built on the order of a mahogany tree; his impudent adviser Hannibal, who addresses his majesty as Kingy; the irreverent...
Still, the average Briton did a little hasty calculation and concluded that the budget was tolerable. "It's a case of losing on the swings and gaining on the roundabouts," said a self-employed street vendor. The main complaint about the budget is that it fails to take strong measures to combat unemployment, now at a record 3 million (a rate of nearly 13%) and' still rising. Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, borrowing from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, scorned Howe's cost-and-balance sheet as "a thing of shreds and patches." The government...