Coming soon, in an EFL classroom near you!

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:22 pm

Observing recent talks and threats from the Russian quarter, I would be surprised if the expression "rocket-rattling" didn't make a come back quite soon.

"Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, formless in its inception, turned into a program for free world development. Leadership had begun to reassert itself. Against the dark background of the Soviet satellite, Russia's diplomatic rocket-rattling and fear of weakness in the free world's leadership, President Dwight Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met last week in Washington. They took an idea, which at first was little more than a hope. "

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 37,00.html

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:36 pm

Also, "reds" might again send the graph skyward in the coming years.

Time Magazine:

DECADE-PER MIL
1920s 12.44
1930s 20.87
1940s 34.68
1950s115.30
1960s 46.07
1970s 12.86
1980s 6.51
1990s 6.68
2000s 4.15

http://corpus.byu.edu/time/

JuanTwoThree · Post by **JuanTwoThree** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:54 am

I didn't know that Time was so interested in English football in the '50s.
Liverpool fans got everywhere in those days.

metal56 · Post by **metal56** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:20 am

JuanTwoThree wrote:I didn't know that Time was so interested in English football in the '50s.
Liverpool fans got everywhere in those days.

Or Man U-ers.