Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, usually a hothead orator, softly sneered that finding a reply to Churchill was like "trying to climb up a smooth, flat surface; I can get no hold ... at any point whatever. He went on from generalization to generalization . . ." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell said: "I have never heard from [Churchill] a speech ... so completely lacking in serious argument." As the government barrage ripped into him, Churchill squirmed, slapped his waistcoat, fumbled in his pockets, finally got to his feet, turned and looked behind him. Spellbound, the entire House watched Winnie's antics. Gaitskell...
This is the merry-go-round on which colleges have found themselves. Some of them are now trying to climb...
Dockers and customs men watched while a civilian who had come with the Sūreté officers helped the bearded man to climb out of the Ford. They noted that the stowaway spoke Bulgarian to the civilian, Italian to the ship's captain, French to the police. They heard...
This week Ike was scheduled to climb back into his plane, head for NATO Capital Lisbon. After that, Rome, Luxembourg, Heidelberg, back to Paris, then Reykjavik and Ottawa. On Jan. 29 he would return to Washington, report on the prospects of Western defense...
...agency ever had before. It politely invited the Chinese government to come to Lake Success. Then appeared the unforgettable General Wu, the only man in history (so far) to have the exquisite pleasure of telling a world organization of 60 nations representing 1,845,000,000 people to go climb a flagpole. General Wu was not much interested in borders, loops or perimeters. He placed his government in the vanguard of "all the oppressed nations and peoples of the East," who are struggling either against foreign rule or their own governments...