Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee: Frank Clement...
...seventh British by-election since Winston Churchill's Tories returned to power. Both sides rolled out their biggest guns: Laborite Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison took to the stump for Labor, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden toured Wycombe's village greens in a soaking rainstorm for the Tories, and Winston Churchill sent a rousing message urging the voters not to be taken in by the "wild caterwaul of abuse...
...House of Commons, where no King or Queen is allowed to enter, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and other members of government and loyal opposition waited in fidgety silence until the stentorian cry of "Black Rod!" was heard in the corridors. A moment later General Sir Brian Horrocks, Black Rod himself, knocked three times on their lobby door and, bowing, commanded "this honorable House to wait upon Her Majesty immediately in the House of Peers...
...Britain's Parliamentary Labor Party faced up to the question that it had so long evaded: What is to be done about the Bevanites? Fears of a party split that would jeopardize Labor's chances in the next British election hung heavy in the air, but to Clement Attlee, back from a squally powwow with Europe's splintery Socialists, the time seemed ripe for a showdown...
Throughout the vote, Bevan sat smugly with lips pursed, eyes straight ahead and plump fingers tipped together. Morrison was motionless. Clement Attlee stared into space, lifeless as a wax model...