Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survivors of the British resistance movement were in their places. Aneurin Bevan, bearing the marks of torture [he had been captured while leading the famous attempt to rescue Winston Churchill from the death cell at Brixton Prison], had come back from the Welsh hills. . . . Megan Lloyd George [daughter of David Lloyd George], La Pasionaria of the British resistance movement . . . was in her place, and by her side sat the aged Lord Winterton, who had organized and conducted the resistance movement among the ruins of London for three years...
Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...
...House of Commons, ambled alone into the House bar, washed down the bitter taste of a bitter defeat with two double Scotches in two minutes. He stood silent and lonely for another five minutes, then ambled away. On his mind was a pink, popeyed Labor rebel named Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...
...coalition Government's radically progressive new education bill. They had the demonstrated fact that the Tory party leaders, no fools, were not nearly so reactionary as the party label indicated. But there were many signs that all of these things were not enough. One sign was Aneurin Sevan's successful revolt. He could never have got away with it if he had not bespoken the mood of many Britons, moving with him toward a new postwar labor leadership...
...Aneurin Bevan talked, Ernie Bevin restlessly shifted his weight, impatiently flung his farm-hardened hands about in gestures he had long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...