Word: crossman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saying so hardly made the going great. Jenkins reported out a gloomy budget for 1969-70. Then Crossman casually announced that the government was raising by 25% the price of dentures and spectacles obtained through the National Health Service. Everything about the announcement by Crossman was wrong. It was released right on the eve of local elections in which. Labor's chances were poor to begin with, and it seemed almost calculated to rile the very backbenchers who had organized the abortive revolt. Worst of all, it reminded everyone in both parties that back in 1951 a similar charge...
...yard high hurdles -- Moore (Y) 15.0, Evans (Y) 15.2, Crossman (C) 15.5, Young...
...company inherited when it was formed nine years ago by a merger of two of Britain's oldest brewers. Streamlining Watney's chain of 6,650 company-owned pubs, he shut down those serving only 100 or so regular tipplers, opened new ones in more populous areas. Crossman has also converted many pubs into "Schooner Inns," which serve $1.40 steak dinners and sell a "terrific amount of liquor...
Naturally, something had to happen to show that the barn door is still not locked. The very next night, Housing Minister Richard Crossman, an acid critic of the Vassall affair, took some work with him to dinner at the West End's elegant Prunier's restaurant. After coffee, he absentmindedly left behind under the table 18 sheets stamped "Confidential." At a nearby table was a Conservative businessman, Geoffrey Blundell-Brown, who gleefully retrieved the papers, read them, then called the Daily Express to lambaste the lapse. With that, Blundell-Brown returned the documents. Crossman said he was "much...
Labor leaders found solace in the fact that municipal elections do not always reflect national sentiment. Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing, noted that the government had had to do a great many "unpopular things in order to repair a long period of damage" under the Tories. Labor's austerity program had resulted in higher interest rates on loans for housing and cars, and a rise in local taxes. In view of last week's defeat, many thought that Wilson almost certainly would avoid the headlong rush into a general election that many of his supporters were proposing, instead...