Word: labouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaitskell, the road upward has been remarkably short. Seventeen years ago he left his academic post as head of the Department of Political Economy at University College, London, to enter civil service. Yet since he first won his Leeds constituency in the 1945 Labour sweep, Gaitskell has risen to a succession of high party posts, despite firm opposition from the Socialist left wing. A middle-class intellectual at the head of a party of workingmen, Gaitskell represents a new generation of Socialist leadership that is currently modifying some of the essential features of "the Cause...
This advance within the Labour party generated some bitterness among old-line Socialists, nonetheless, bitterness that was not fully resolved by Gaitskell's 2 to 1 victory over Aneurin Bevan last year for the parliamentary leadership. For Gaitskell--the university-trained son of a middle-class family--not only represents a background that can rankle a tobacco-chewing coal miner like Nye Bevan or a sidewalk hawker like Herbert Morrison, but his Socialist ideas diverge markedly in some respects from "orthodox" party doctrine. Yet Gaitskell's friends feel that his academic training has done him no harm, because...
...Gennaro (died A.D. 304), which is formally witnessed each year at the Cathedral of Naples, modern miracles run more to visions and apparitions-largely of the Virgin, and granted to the young. Examples: Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes (1858); the three children at famed Fatima, Portugal (1917); St. Catherine Labouré (1830), who heard the rustle of silk one night and received instructions from Mary herself about the miraculous medal that is now worn by hundreds of thousands. Stigmatists exist today who, like the first of them, St. Francis of Assisi, exhibit the wounds of Christ's crucifixion...
Reaction in the world's capitals to the day's events ranged from firmness in London to rancorous denunciation in Cairo. The Conservative government of Prime Minister Eden beat off the verbal assaults of Labour leaders and London pickets, and survived four rigid votes of confidence...
KING: How, madame-Russians? PRINCESS: Ay, in truth, my lord; trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. -Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost...