Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...melancholy fact about Britain's 1951 election is that two parties are competing for the privilege of presiding over the next bout of economic unpleasantness. Clement Attlee, if he expects to lose, has exercised the Prime Minister's privilege of putting the fruit for which Churchill has been reaching into the old man's hands at the precise moment when it is turning into the worst kind of lemon. Neither side apparently sees a way to cope with the crisis except by blood, sweat and tears, which in peacetime terms mean regimentation, restriction and austerity...
Peace & Prosperity. Laborites, before they could square away at the Tories, had first to quit fighting each other. This they proceeded to do last week at the seaside city of Scarborough. Before the election was announced, Clement Attlee and the rebel Laborite Nye Bevan had been scheduled to square off against one another in Scarborough. Instead of starring for the rebels, Nye-who hopes to win the election after next, and doesn't want the blame if the Socialists lose this time-stepped up to praise Attlee, not to bury him. But it was still Bevan the rebel...
When Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the House of Commons last July that His Majesty's government would not withdraw from Abadan completely, the British lion seemed ready for an oldtime imperial roar. From Cyprus to the Persian Gulf, British paratroops, marines and warships stood by. They were ready to go into action if Iran tried to seize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s huge refinery...
Fluidity & Security. The British cruiser Mauritius lay at anchor off Abadan, but no order for action came from London. Instead, Clement Attlee called his ministers to more emergency sessions over the Iran crisis. A show of force, the Prime Minister decided, must be collective. He dispatched an urgent personal message to President Harry Truman in Washington. Its contents were not disclosed. The U.S. reply cautioned against force, urged "moderation" and "fluidity...
...Radiologist Peter James Kerley and others showed what seemed to be a growth in the left lung. Australian-born Brigadier Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, 75, who enjoys the title of Sergeant Surgeon to the King, agreed that an operation was necessary. The doctors decided that another Welshman, Chest Surgeon Clement Price Thomas, was the man to do the surgery...