Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father died soon afterwards, so his family settled in England. Little Hilaire grew up bilingual, binational...
Undigestive Process. In Southampton, England. Waiter Kyriacos Miltiadou was fined $28 for knocking down and kicking a diner who failed...
...Liverpool last week a venerable labor leader sentimentally told his colleagues: "After 30 years in the union it was the greatest pleasure of my life to see the Dock Road in such an idle state yesterday." At Southampton other union bosses sallied out in a motor launch to hurl the dreaded epithet "strikebreaker" at the crews of Royal Navy tugs which were towing the 81,237-ton Queen Mary out to sea. Without quite knowing how or why, Britain had drifted to the verge of a work stoppage which all the headlines said would be the biggest since the general...
...precedent to cheer him and Lady Eden as they entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter was: "Thank heaven Eden had the guts to take firm action." Though Labor M.P.s harangued crowds from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Southampton on the theme of "law not war," their impact seemed to be diminishing. A worried Tory campaign manager thought that Eden seemed to have most people with him "but this thing could change any moment." Though the Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the government, the Archbishop of York found that...
...slowed him to a point where he went into semiretirement. Though he was a rich man with a 20% interest in his firm (which he left in trust to colleges, churches and hospitals), he never retired entirely. Last week, at 70, Charlie Merrill died in his sleep at his Southampton home. Recently he gave one of his last bits of advice to Main Street: "I think every American would do well to invest one-twelfth of his investable funds monthly in stocks over the next five years...