Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blind Eye. Both sides were like wrestlers, breathing heavily, circling and feinting to find the openings for a grapple hold on the other fellow. One corner of the ring was the "brick and Brussels sprouts" constituency of Mid-Bedfordshire. Mid-Bed was long a Liberal Party stronghold. In the increased polarization of politics, the Liberals have been everywhere crushed in the middle...
...contesting only 109 seats. Lloyd George's son Gwilym was now a Tory minister. Lloyd George's daughter. Lady Megan, last month gave up Liberalism for Labor, saying it was the only refuge for honest radicals. "We're gone now." an old Liberal in Mid-Bed conceded. "This year we haven't even got a candidate. There's some 6.000 of us has got to choose between the Tories and the Socialists...
...Into Mid-Bed, on a cold, rainy day, went a Labor star, Hugh Gaitskell. once Chancellor of the Exchequer. "The Tories say that industrial production is at record levels," said Gaitskell. "They are right, of course, but 'record level' doesn't mean anything. It was at record levels all during the years of Labor government. What is important is the pace production is rising. From 1946 to 1951 [Labor years], production rose 35%, or 7% a year. Under the Tories in the last three years, it has risen only 10%, or 3% a year...
...even eights in Mid-Bed," commented a Conservative shopkeeper...
...producers (whose movies last year grossed $109,992,000 in Britain): "Anyone who prolongs scenes of violence is only doing so to titillate a small unhealthy section of the audience." More broadminded about sex than U.S. censors, Watkins long ago abandoned the taboo on picturing husbands and wives in bed together by commenting: "Where else would you expect them to sleep nights...