Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tories since 1951), and let it go at that. But Gaitskell obviously hoped to make big campaign capital of Labor's promise of an immediate 20% boost in old-age pensions, and other welfare benefits, all to be paid for by "planned expansion" that would also get Britain back into "the race for higher productivity among industrial nations...
...athletic Nadhem Tabakchali, one of the Iraqi army's most distinguished officers, was in command of all Iraqi troops in the Mosul area at the time of the rising. Dismayed by the unrest and drift toward Communism that have plagued Iraq since the July 1958 revolution against British-backed strongman Nuri asSaid, Tabakchali had almost certainly been involved in plans for a general army uprising against Kassem. But when the local commander in Mosul impetuously jumped the gun, Tabakchali hesitated fatally, then pulled back...
...Harking back nostalgically to the good old days when party activists worked seven days a week and scarcely found time to eat or sleep, the provincial paper Gazeta Robotnicza blamed the Ziebice fiasco on the fact that Ziebice's Communists were unwilling to accept responsibility. "We might as well say why," mused the paper unhappily. "A number of our activists have come to like the petty-bourgeois way of life. They want nothing else but to be left in peace...
...Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina had gone to New York, reportedly to see her lawyer). Maria and I-"We love each other...
...apartment without making my husband the least bit jealous," said Rita, in a statement not exactly calculated to flatter big (a gefilte 198½ lbs.), bagel-eyed Harry Golden, 57, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and publisher of the Carolina Israelite. Back in Manhattan, Rita's husband, Viking Press Executive Tom Guinzburg, tossed in his own 2?, said: "We're all good Israelis...