Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone else, but I did work for military intelligence before the war.' " To Churchill, Burgess appeared to be "a lonely and unhappy man who has ruined his life." He now works for a Russian publishing house, says that he had quarreled with his Co-Conspirator MacLean and scarcely ever sees him, and told Churchill, "I am still a Communist and a homosexual...
...eyes of many Frenchmen, the worst thing famed Painter Pierre Bonnard ever did was to make an honest woman of his pink, satin-skinned model, Marthe de Meligny. When, in 1930, after living with Marthe for more than a quarter-century, Bonnard marched her down to the mayor's office and married her, he set in motion the grinding machinery of French law which finally crushed him and threatened every creative artist in the nation...
...Makarios, the politician and primate, than for the London agreement (,'TIME. March 2) that will within the year turn the island from a British crown colony into an independent republic. In their whitewashed coffee shops Greek Cypriots frowned at Article 22 of the agreement, which forbids them ever again to demand enosis (union with Greece). "We shall have to hear about it from the mouth of Makarios," said one coffee drinker. "From him we shall learn if it is good...
Such forthright action seemed to please the local white population, but it dismayed London. Though committed to the federation, the Colonial Office is beginning to have regrets that it had ever agreed to the idea. The Spectator took Britain to task for bundling Nyasaland "huggermugger into an unwilling association with the Rhodesias." The Daily Mirror demanded that the government make it absolutely clear that Britain would never abandon the Nyasas "to the control of local whites," lest one more Union of South Africa be born...
...lecture (subject: "The Future of Europe") duly applauded, Laborite Peer Lord Attlee settled down for tea at Indiana's Valparaiso University. Cream or lemon?asked the hostess.Answered Attlee, with just the flicker of a smirk: "Ever since the Boston Tea Party, you Americans have been trying to dredge up our bloomin' tea and give it back to us. No, thanks-I'll have coffee...