Word: englishman
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...loyal to the countries that nurtured us and protected us from rebellion and other follies. Indeed, America, like New Zealand, is often accused of being more British than Britain is, while Louisiana, like Quebec, hearkens back to an earlier and in many ways more pleasant France. No Englishman could show more excitement over a cricket match than the average sports-loving American, and last week's beginning of the World Cricket Series was a national ritual for most Americans. Louisiana, in turn, has retained that raffish, somewhat off-center charm we associate with all things French: good food, good...
There was Ragen, the psychotic and angry rapist; Arthur, a rational and emotionless Englishman (replete with accent): Allen, the con man; Danny, the frightened adolescent; Adalana, the introverted lesbian (three of his personalities were female); Philip, the thug; Kevin, the planner; Walter, the Australian big-game hunter; Lee, the comedian; Bobby, the daydreamer; and some 14 others. By securing the confidence of Milligan's main incarnation, Billy, the doctors elicited from the defendant information about each of his personalities...
...like any good Englishman, Schama say the recent royal wedding brought home feelings of patriotism. "It's the one thing left from the days of the Empire--the trappings of the culture remain. It was a sort of nose-thumbing at the modern world and a fairly innocuous form of self-deception," he says...
...Mogaill, Roary Rua, Gimp Gillespie, Old Crubog and the Englishman Potter down their Guinnesses under Roarty's suspicious eye and argue why earthworms are scarce and if a doe hare drops her kits all in one den. Roarty's bizarre attempts to unveil his blackmailer also reveal the tragicomedy of the Other Ireland. Locals fight the design of a new church-"a cube surmounted by a cone"-and investigate a blackguard who steals the priest's maid's knickers from the wash line. Without the precisely plotted mystery, this might merely be another scenic tour...
George Bush, asked Richard Burton for an Englishman's view of monarchy and was told that Burton was Welsh and, coming from those aristocrats of labor, the miners, considered himself a left-wing socialist but was so disillusioned by all politics that he might even become a monarchist. There were such depths of irony in this answer that Brokaw prudently chose not to explore it further. The British, as listeners were constantly told, still like and look up to the monarchy. But the reporting conveyed a change in attitude since the last big royal wedding, of Elizabeth and Philip...