Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eating Crow. From the Laborites came shouts of "Ho! Ho!" and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell commented sarcastically, "The government deserve particular credit for eating so many words and even inviting Archbishop Makarios to the conference." Macmillan huffed back at Gaitskell: "He never has been and never will be able to rise to the level of great events...
...tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...grimy miners, many of them leather-jacketed foreigners-Sicilian and Spanish peasants, Greek sponge fishermen attracted by the wages-barricaded the streets with overturned coal cars. They ripped up rails, destroyed signal equipment, scattered broken glass at crossroads, where their wives shrilly ordered cars and trucks to turn back. At Quaregnon, 20,000 strikers and sympathizers jammed the city square under banners crying: "Death to the Coal and Steel Community!" "Work, not Charity...
King with thankful tears, and Corsican officials toasted the occasion in champagne. At week's end Mohammed V flew on to Madagascar, confident that Morocco's squabbling politicians would not seize on his absence to stir trouble back home, hopeful that his symbolic journey would remind them of the unity his people once shared...
...prince and press, which is kept from British readers, apparently dates back to 1954 when the sensational London Sunday Pictorial ran a spicy series by the duke's ex-valet. It was aggravated this year when the Pictorial had to be stopped by court order (obtained by the royal family) from completing an intimate series by the ex-superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. Many Fleet Street newspapermen, without blaming the royal family for irritation at peephole journalists, nonetheless blame Buckingham Palace for doing nothing to encourage legitimate coverage. Any royal tour is bound...