Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Stassen, the G.O.P.'s own Peter Piper, has picked himself a peck of pickled political peppers while serving as a presidential assistant on disarmament. First, he plucked himself a hot one when he led the drive to dump Dick Nixon from the 1956 presidential ticket. And then, five weeks ago, he served up his opinion that Nixon was indeed a 1956 liability, and that the Republicans could have won control of Congress if Massachusetts' Christian Herter rather than Nixon had been the vice-presidential nominee. Fellow Republicans glowered, wondered how long, O Ike, before Harold is sent...
...Dulles dropped in at the White House for a chat with President Eisenhower. When they came out, Dulles' sword was sheathed, Stassen was virtually disarmed. Announced Dulles: the President had directed Stassen henceforth to operate under policy guidance of the Secretary of State. Despite the fact that Harold will keep his Cabinet rank and membership in Ike's National Security Council and will head the U.S. delegation to the United Nations disarmament meeting in London this month, this switch of Harold's activities signified a definite movement in the direction of the pickle barrel...
...Brown's Hotel as its owner raised his pint high. Across the street, their collars turned up against the icy wind, the voters of Carmarthen constituency in Wales were queueing up to cast their votes in Britain's third parliamentary by-election since Tory Harold Macmillan took over as Prime Minister. Under normal circumstances the results would have been easily predictable, for Carmarthen is a Liberal Party stronghold and one of the candidates was pert, jaunty, 54-year-old Lady Megan Lloyd George, daughter and longtime political aide of the late Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George...
What sort of English do the English speak? It is certainly not always the Queen's, says Harold Orton, professor of English language and medieval literature at the University of Leeds. Last week, after ten years of gathering material for a definitive Linguistic Atlas of England in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Orton and his colleagues revealed that had Gertrude Stein only known the farmers of England, her celebrated "rose is a rose is a rose" might have read a "rose is a hep is a shoop is a schoop is a dog shoop...
...spirit is weak. The spirit, in fact, has just about vanished. The songs have no lilt, the lyrics no verve, the sketches no crackle. The dancing has its bits of color and movement, but never the slightest distinction. In such feckless fandangos, the better performers-Billy De Wolfe, Harold Lang and Helen Wood-are largely wasted, while most other performers only make things worse...