Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...T.U.C. leaders faced their government's key men in Sir Stafford Cripps's study in the House of Commons. Beside Cripps at his maroon-topped desk sat Ernest Bevin and Aneurin Bevan, both good union men. Ernie Bevin assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...
...reflection of their faith is warming Okinawa's people. On a hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open...
What effect Canada's more self-assertive foreign policy might have outside the country remained to be seen. But there was no doubt about the reaction at home. Members of Parliament thumped their desks enthusiastically. Newspapers hailed Pearson's speech as "a penetrating analysis" and "a masterly survey." For a change, Canadians clearly liked a little muscle-flexing in foreign affairs...
...family. One evening Princess Margaret took 24 friends nightclubbing (see Music). On another evening King George, Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters went to the movies: a special performance of That Forsyte Woman at the Odeon, about which 5,000 celebrity hunters swirled and gawked. On an evening at home (Buckingham Palace), the King and Queen gave a little party (250 guests) for Princess Elizabeth before she flew to Malta to spend her second wedding anniversary with Prince Philip, who is on duty with the fleet. The band at the party obligingly played request numbers for the Queen (Baby...
...their tireless search for beauty, millions of U.S. women have tried to improve the looks of their hair by buying and using up millions of "cold-wave" kits. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has been checking on complaints that the home wave preparations* cause skin rashes and other ills. Most of the complaints appear to have originated in beauty parlors, whose business has been noticeably hurt by home waving...