Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking of Churchill to the House, after a slight nod to the empty seat of the Member for Woodford, Prime Minister Harold Wilson suddenly seemed touched with the Churchillian magic. "Where the fighting was hottest, he was in it," Wilson recalled, "sparing none, nor asking for quarter. The creature and possession of no one party, he has probably been the target of more concentrated parliamentary invective from, in turn, each of the major parties than any other member of any parliamentary age, and against each in turn he turned the full force of his own parliamentary oratory." Churchill, said Wilson...
...that Rather-despite the bone that had been tossed to him-was being transferred to London. Hearing this, Lyndon followed up his earlier gesture with a whole can of Ken-L-Ration, wishing Rather all the best and promising him that he would "put in a good word with Harold...
...hero of Buechner's book is a parson of no importance in a small New England town, an infantile irreverend who tries to please the kiddies by mixing divinity with inanity-"Our Father who aren't in Heaven," he keeps chirping, "Harold be Thy name." He tries to please the ladies by mixing divinity with lust, but somehow he never quite makes the scene-the redheaded heroine has to employ her husband when she brings the novel to its mystical climax. "She laughed into his throat as the chill weight pitched over her, warm beneath the chill...
...else with real stature in international affairs. So Wilson had to turn to a man who was a familiar figure among Labor experts, but who was unknown in the diplomatic salons of the world. He was Michael Stewart, 58, a Labor M.P. since 1945, who last October was Harold Wilson's choice as Minister of Science and Education...
...Commended. As the cur tain of grief descended over Britain, the nation's life slowed almost to a halt. "In view of the nation's concern about Sir Winston Churchill," Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a major House of Commons speech and an economic report to the nation on TV, also put off an important round of talks with West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Britain was to have commemorated the 700th anniversary of the first Parliament last week, but in deference to Parliament's greatest son. Lords and Commons agreed to put off the ceremonies...