Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This irresolute performance was the biggest blow to Gaitskell's prestige since he took over leadership from Clem Attlee 15 months ago. Ex-Tyneside Miner Billie Blyton in an angry speech declared he had never seen such "knock-kneed" leadership in his life, and once again there were many to say that Nye Be van (now living it up on a tour of India) was, after all, the party's best choice for leadership. Such talk always pleases the Tories-Nye Bevan makes such a fine bogeyman to wave at British middle-class voters...
After a harrowing week in Parliament, where he was rapped for "knock-kneed'' leadership, Britain's Labor Party Boss Hugh Gaitskell (see FOREIGN NEWS) proved that he can also be bandy-legged...
...cancer. It was some convalescence. Each day at 10 a.m. he was on the phone to the President and the State Department, keeping abreast of the Suez crisis and the U.S. efforts to keep the Russian "volunteers" out of the Middle East. At 11 o'clock he would knock off to lie on the beach or go fishing; after lunch he would take a nap or go fishing some more. Each evening before dinner Dulles would invite his one Key West assistant, John Hanes Jr., 32, and his wife Lucy, and perhaps his doctor, to his quarters for cocktails...
Kaye has returned recently from a world-wide tour he made on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Educational Fund. The actor's more recent film appearances have been in the "Inspector General," "Hans Christian Andersen," "The Court Jester," and "Knock on Wood...
...heroes, the U.S.S.R.'s Soviet Culture pounced upon none other than Poet Henry Wadsworth (Paul Revere's Ride) Longfellow, ballyhooed him as "a humanitarian who condemned war and demanded its abolition . . . one of the most beloved . . . poets in the world, despite attempts by modern bourgeois critics to knock him from his pedestal...