Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special-delivery stamps, and an 11% increase in telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back here and snipe year after year. If you don't want to go, why don't you just shut up?" Retorted Gross: "I'm going to continue to snipe at all junketing organizations. So just keep your feet braced...
...Rocky refuses to play dead. He went off on a twelve-day tour of Europe, met with headline-making figures like Pope Paul VI, France's President Charles de Gaulle, German Chancellor-designate Ludwig Erhard and British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson. He still intends to enter the New Hampshire, California, and possibly the West Virginia primaries, and wage a person-to-person campaign in the style of the late Estes Kefauver. It is generally conceded that he is badly trailing Goldwater in all three states; in California, for example, polls give him 35% of Republican votes against...
...buoyantly aware that all Britain was watching them-and the man who is expected by the majority (56%) of Britons to be their next Prime Minister. The delegates fidgeted impatiently through the first day of ho-hum oratory. Finally, at the stroke of 10 o'clock next morning, Harold Wilson rose to make the keynote speech as the new leader of the Labor Party. For a solid minute, the delegates roared and clapped their approval, while Wilson gazed vacantly over their heads, as if groping for words. His first sentence jabbed to the heart of Britain's troubled...
...Wilderness. The delegates were even more relieved by Wilson's performance. Over the years, Harold Wilson, 47, has earned the reputation of a vain, slippery opportunist. Less than a year ago, one longtime colleague said: "I have never known such a brilliant or such an unloved man." After Hugh Gaitskell's death last January, Gaitskellites prayed that the party leadership would not go to "Little Harold," as they then called him. Most of the leading Laborites who are now in Wilson's "Shadow" Cabinet found it hard to vote for him in the party election last February...
...British may be underestimating their other Harold, Prime Minister Macmillan, who is every bit as wily as Wilson-and in office. If Macmillan holds off the election until next June, Tories say wistfully, Wilson's luster may have dimmed and their own limp fortunes revived. But even allowing for Labor's proved capacity for plucking defeat from the jaws of victory, most Conservatives last week agreed that their prospects have seldom been gloomier...