10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLIMPISH»
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blimpish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
blimpish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: A Dictionary of Eponyms ...
A Dictionary of Eponyms with Biographies in the Social Sciences R. C. S. Trahair.
70 BLIMP, BLIMPISH From 1862 to 1870, he served in the U.S. Congress for
Iowa and developed a moderatist's approach to the currency problem. As a
senator ...
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The Radical General: Sir Ronald Adam and the New Model Army ...
'BLIMPISH'. In the samemonth as Capt. Studd wrotehisreport, a cadetwhohad
recently passed through OCTU 168 washighlycritical ofthe training, and was
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blimpish. colonialist. managed. to. end. up. as. a. premature. hippy.'24. But before
he went through that remarkable transformation, Younghusband did assert
Britain's influence over Tibet, but he did not occupy it. A major objective was to
make ...
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Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age
He was a reactionary militaristic figure who struck a chord in 1930s Britain, to the
extent of inspiring adjectives such as blimpish and blimpian and nouns like
blimpery and blimpism. The ultimate inspiration for the term was the tubby airship
...
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The New Politics: Liberal Conservatism Or Same Old Tories?
While the US tea party movement might happily see itself as counter-
revolutionary and many might not take issue with being called 'right-wing', it is
unlikely that anyone would actively seek to be called either blimpish or an
obscurantist.
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The Honourable Schoolboy: A George Smiley Novel
One crowd, led by a blimpish fellow in charge of microphone transcription, went
so far as to claim that the fitting date was some sixty years ago, when “that arch-
cad Bill Haydon” was born into the world under a treacherous star. Haydon's very
...
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The new politics: Liberal Conservatism or same old Tories?
While, in practice, this need not mean beingagainst all change many of the
cognates fortheterm imply precisely that: we find wordssuchas blimpish,
counterrevolutionary, diehard, obscurantist andright winger. While the US tea
party movement ...
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Rethinking the Future: The Correspondence Between Geoffrey ...
... where everyone was getting more net disposable income every year.
Something more than current ideas of freedom is clearly needed as 'the great
internalizer'. "I wrote what I thought was an outrageously Blimpish paper, in view
of the ...
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The Karla Trilogy Digital Collection Featuring George ...
One crowd, led by a blimpish fellow in charge of microphone transcription, went
so far as to claim that the fitting date was some sixty years ago, when “that arch-
cad Bill Haydon” was born into the world under a treacherous star. Haydon's very
...
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Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other ...
... Democratic president from the left, another to support George W. Bush in his
War on Terror and invasion of Iraq. In the months after September 11, you heard
Hitchens's old friends lamenting his transformation into a blimpish, Blimpish Tory.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLIMPISH»
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blimpish is used in the context of the following news items.
Boris took to the airwaves, Dave was in a holding pattern overhead
Boris Johnson, helicopter-haired and blimpish, had. Subscribe now. Login. Already a subscriber? To see the full article you need to subscribe. «The Times, Jul 15»
A TRIUMPH OF KANYE WEST'S WILL
The people who profess to hate him can't tear their eyes away. The joke is emphatically on them, and on their apoplectic, Blimpish indignation. «Naija247news, Jun 15»
COONRIDGE DIGEST: Coonridge Cures For Air Travel Tribulations
... tent and camping gear, then opens the overhead and begins to desperately cram and pack and jam the 80 pounds of blimpish material in the ... «thejournal-news.net, Jun 15»
Victory at Waterloo did not spoil the Duke of Wellington
After 1815 the great soldier also became a great statesman, another achievement that no one else has ever matched (imagine the blimpish ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
North Carolina witness 'mesmerized' by low flying cigar UFO
“It moved gentle, blimpish, quietly and slowly leveling out as it headed west. At one point it was almost directly above us slightly north and we ... «Open Minds UFO News, May 15»
It's not Ed Miliband who Vladimir Putin wants in Number 10
How, then, without sounding facetious or blimpish, do you let the Conservatives down gently and inform them that it is almost certainly David ... «New Statesman, Apr 15»
Gallipoli: When Murdoch Went to War
... in ending the career of the commander on the ground, an intriguing general who, far from being a blimpish “donkey”, was a liberal-minded, press-friendly poet. «Radio Times, Apr 15»
Call me prejudiced, but nothing good can be said about golf
Its origins in the PG Wodehouse, Blimpish world of plus fours, men only, we-don't-just-let-anyone-in-you-know. Just the right chaps who can do ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
Tory press side with the rich over Labour's 'war on non-doms'
While the Conservative party, via the blimpish figure of defence secretary Michael Fallon, aims its guns at Labour's (actually settled) position on ... «Left Foot Forward, Apr 15»
Robert Cushman: Oscars 2015 — the year of the biopic
It has to drag in a historically unrelated spy plot and make a Blimpish caricature of Turing's unsympathetic superior. It also, according to an ... «National Post, Feb 15»