Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse-betting Nottingham crowd. "All right, but just get the right man ahead this time." Women craned and gawked to get a good look at the handsome, well-tailored Prime Minister of Great Britain, up there on the crude wooden platform. It began to drizzle. Eden patted his grey hair. "My word, it's rain. Well, never mind, I'm sure the sun will shine again." There were chuckles from the crowd. "The cost of living has gone up much less under us than under the Socialists . . ." Eden went on. "But the most important thing is peace. Peace...
...Shades of grey" are the only differences London's Economist could see between the parties. Campaigns are designed to make those shades seem black and white. For Anthony Eden and the Conservatives, the May 26 election is a big gamble. With the prime-ministership, Eden inherited only a thin 19-seat majority from Sir Winston Churchill. Had Eden wished, he could have limped along for the remaining 18 months of the Conservatives' five-year mandate. But he chose to risk an election to seek a mandate of his own for a full five years, hoping...
...grey-haired lady shouted from the crowd: "Why did you wait three and a half years?" Angry bystanders jostled the lady and murmured, "Go back to Moscow." Eden put on the father-knows-best manner which comes all too easily to well-schooled, club-and-garden-party-trained Tories. "You ought to be ashamed to mention the matter, dear lady," ssaid Eden. "We have built more schools in three and a half years than the Socialists in six." "Not enough," snapped the old lady...
...Great Britain. At the campaign's halfway mark, big things like the Big Four meeting, little things like a drop in the price of tea, bred confidence in Tory meeting rooms. The Liberal London News Chronicle reported that in "Labor committee room after committee room, there is the grey admission that half the workers are disheartened, the other half defeatist." There were, of course, Laborites who would deny it. But most of the betting was that unless the wind turned full about, Britain was about to vote the Conservatives back...
Compensation-in terms of revivals and a good deal else-came from off-Broadway. Last season's white hope, the Phoenix Theater, turned a rather dull grey -though thanks to Comic Nancy Walker, who was very funny when she had material and in places when she hadn't, the largely uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival...