Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane was en route to Halifax, Nova Scotia...
...manner and accent, Thatcher in fact is a grocer's daughter from a market town in Lincolnshire. Her campaign strategy was designed in part to impress working-class voters, especially women, that she shared their concern about prices and other gut economic issues. At a shopping mall in Halifax, she brandished in her right hand a shopping bag crammed full of groceries, while in her left hand she held a half-empty one. "The right hand," she trilled, "was what a pound would buy under the Tory government in 1974; the other is what one pound would buy under...
Josephine Whitaker, 19, was so proud of her new watch that she rushed to her grandparents' house on the other side of Savile Park in the Yorkshire town of Halifax to show it off. She started for home at 11:40 p.m., declining an offer to stay overnight because she had forgotten her contact-lens case. "Don't worry, I'll run all the way," she assured her grandparents before stepping out into the night...
Last week police began circulating a composite photographic likeness of a "scruffy looking," mustached suspect who tried to pick up a woman in Halifax just three hours before Josephine Whitaker was murdered. Rebuffed, he drove off in an old Ford. Police suspect that the killer may live with someone who is deliberately shielding him from the investigators. Says Oldfield: "Until this man is caught he will continue to kill and kill again...
Robert L. Stanfield, Member of Parliament from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and former Leader of the Opposition, cited historical precedents for Canada's language problems. "Traditionally, when you have two languages, you have a problem," he said last week singling out the Basque drive for independence from Spain as an example...