Word: becken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinks that Gaitskell and Mollet differ from Stalin and Khrushchev only in degree is obviously suffering from the strain of overwork. In two by-elections last week, the voters gave their own reading of the political quarreling. The Tories managed to hold two seats in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Becken-ham, but in both cases suffered a loss of votes to the Socialists. In Newcastle-on-Tyne the Tory percentage dropped by 3½%, in Beckenham by 6%. In all, the Tories have suffered losses or reduced percentages in every by-election since Suez, and since Macmillan succeeded Anthony Eden...
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