Word: elders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the Labor Party, the Tories hold no formal elections to choose a leader. Instead, their party officials, senior ministers and elder statesmen go through an elaborate, private process of divination aimed at reaching what is euphemistically called "the consensus" of the party; when they have settled on a candidate who is acceptable to both Cabinet and parliamentary party and looks like a vote getter to boot, the name is presented for routine approval to the Queen. Thus Macmillan's successor will probably not be announced until after Parliament reconvenes Oct. 24 and the Prime Minister formally resigns...
...against), who appeared doubtful that the Tories can win in any case, not unhappily began to fade as a serious contender. Lord Home (10 to 1 against) wouldn't say yes and wouldn't say no, but had weighty support among the party's elder statesmen (and, reportedly, Macmillan...
...into it and that Bill wrote about "the worst side of the South" only because "he wrote what people will believe, for that's what they will pay to read, and even a writer has to make money." His father was deeply disappointed in Sanctuary, John adds: the elder Faulkner had always hoped that Bill would write westerns...
...after hearing Dr. John H. Galbreath, pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church, preach about corneal transplants as a way "to live on usefully after death." Willard Gilliland, a solid, civic-minded man (he was safety and security director for Aluminum Co. of America) talked it over with his wife and elder children. They agreed to donate their corneas to the Eye Bank of Pittsburgh...
...young leader may change his point of view which an elder one probably wouldn...