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Bandits at half-cock
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EVERYONE of my age remembers the Battle of Britain. I wasn't there at the time, merely a glint in the eye of a couple of people who were, but I have a race memory of Spitfires and Messerschmitts chasing each other round the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in a deadly fandango. All our fighter pilots had dogs and girlfriends on the verge of tears. The rest of the population slept in Tube stations waiting for the milk train which never came. The Germans had horns.
I therefore leapt upon Battle of Britain (ITV) because I wanted to fill in the gaps that my imagination had left maddeningly…
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Bandits at half-cock
...cried out for someone who could shout "Scramble" or "Bandits at 10 past three high". Martyn was not the man for the...Nazi talk for bombing us to pieces - had gone off at half-cock. In amongst the general wretchedness, there were moments... |
 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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POOL: Bandits robbed of title - by bad planning.(Sport)
...the expense of Fleur Bandits. But what cost the Bandits the crown was the fact...Oddbods in the opening half of the season, a fixture...clear of the luckless Bandits. Royal Oak A held out...the good at home to Cock & Bear that left... |
 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Football: BACK FROM THE RED; Clydesdale Bank PREMIAR LEAGUE SPL Mixu's magic...
...produce a stunning second-half performance that could haunt...chances in a one-sided first half, they would have been home...Severin and Maybury. "You Hearts bandits"or words to that effect echoed...another monumental defensive cock-up let the Dons in to score... |
 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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MANY UNHAPPY RETURNS...(Features)
...audience dwindled alarmingly by well over half. The same applies to Batman and Robin...Forsythe and Adam Trese are great as bungling bandits, who are more like Reservoir Duds than...sequel was a 20th Century Fox movie called Cock- eyed World (1929), which followed... |
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Red wine, olive oil, chop-sticks Hanoi is one of the great cultural...
...800 visitors to the capital in the first half of 1999, an increase of almost 10 per...Quarter, you can be woken by the sound of a cock crowing at 4am, where sophisticated cafe...sit and contemplate the scene. Masked Bandits speed by on their Honda Dreams with long... |
 "News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)")
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News Focus: Tales from Tonatico
...with rides, music and vendors -- plus cock fights. Faithful parade the statue of...to relatives in Tonatico, which equals half the total yearly income of the town. The...relatives, they are a target for roadside bandits. By going in a convoy with police security... |
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WEEKEND: TRAVEL: Highland fling in the royals' back garden; VIEWS ARE SUITABLY...
...farm animals for safety when there were bandits on what became known as Thieves Road...do. Corgarff Castle, meanwhile, and Cock Bridge, a 16th-century tower house which...geographical delight, a huge rock split in half, that a small river flows through. And... |
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