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Coloraday Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

The Honourable Schoolboy

Hello,

1)One crowd,led by a blimpish fellow in charge of microphone transcription, went so far as ... 

2)And whose eventual discovery -thus the line of reasoning -brought th British so low that they were forced into a fatal dependence upon their American sister ... 

3)Once george had got Karla under his skin, they said, there was no stopping of him. 

4)...even insisted,in his cups, upon January 26th 1841 as the natural date,when a certain captain Elliot of the Royal Navy took a landing party to the fog-laden rock called Hong kong ...

5)Wheras -the grounded fieldman,the trainers and the case officers who made their own murmured caucus always- ... 

Excuse me for having asked this much.
Thank you very much 
  

Top answer

blimpish - seriously overweight Microphone transcription - These days we'd call him the recording engineer. Need more context. They discovered something which controlled the way they thought about some problem, and this in turn caused their situation to deteriorate.

  • blimpish - seriously overweight Microphone transcription - These days we'd call him the recording engineer.
  • Need more context.
  • They discovered something which controlled the way they thought about some problem, and this in turn caused their situation to deteriorate.
  • had got Karla under his skin - He became addicted to her.
  • He could not stop thinking about her.
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blimpish - seriously overweight

Microphone transcription - These days we'd call him the recording engineer.

Need more context. They discovered something which controlled the way they thought about some problem, and this in turn caused their situation to deteriorate.

had got Karla under his skin - He became addicted to her. He could not stop thinking about

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