Word: beaver
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...fine a figure. He believed that he spoke for the underside of English life, but in the nature of things he had ceased to belong to it. "Bellinger Bolshevik," jeered Conservative Brendan Bracken as Bevan lolled in Lord Beaverbrook's drawing room. Unmoved, Bevan retorted that Beaver-brook's Bollinger was better champagne than he was offered at Bracken's house. A good riposte, but was this scene another of "the radiant ambiguities of the word Socialism...
...Chair. Sexpert Ellis* also sees some virtues in adultery ("Some of us are able to benefit from adultery and some of us are not"), and Maxine Davis advises readers to be permissive about any touches of fetishism in their spouses ("If he likes to have his wife's beaver coat slung across a chair where he can see or touch it while making love, why not leave it there...
...director of the Vincennes zoo usually went home just before dark. The residents of his beaver cage rarely came out in the daylight. It seemed as if the man and the broad-tailed mammals might never meet. Then a crew of Dutch technicians crept close to the edge of the beaver pond on a black, moonless night. They sighted in with a short, cylindrical gadget, and the director finally saw his beavers-scuttling across the face of a TV picture tube that had been set up in his office...
...would surely have been easier to give the director a flashlight and urge him to stay on the job after sundown; the mechanical eye that sees so well in the dark is far too expensive a gadget to be used for casual beaver watching. But the demonstration was impressive proof that the device invented by Dutch Physicist Albert Bouwers is astonishingly sensitive. Its practical applications seem limited only by the imagination of its users...
...early January 1921, when Beaver-brook's account begins, witty, flamboyant Lloyd George had been Prime Minister for four years. As the man who had led his nation to victory in World War 1 and founded the welfare state, he enjoyed greater popular support than any other British politician in more than a century. Politically, he seemed a titan, ruling over squabbling pygmies. Yet the fact was, as Beaverbrook tells the story. "Lloyd George was a Prime Minister without a party." His own Liberal Party was split into warring factions. Severe unemployment at home and violent disagreements over foreign...