Word: labours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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History to the contrary, Britain's Conservatives have a good chance of defeating the Labour Party for the third consecutive time when 28,000,000 Britons go to the polls this Tuesday. Should they win, they will enjoy the longest reign of any party since...
...propound," says Shaw to Walkley, "a certain social substance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distill it for you." Thus the main plot of Man and Superman, a sort of Love's Labour's Won with woman as the laborer and man as the winnings; a "serio-comic love chase"; a nimble game in dead earnest of Higher Hide-and-Seek...
Uive Kitzinger, politics don at Nuffield College, Oxford, provded a friendly foil for a summary of current Labour Party policies by Reg Prentice, a Labour MP. Both agreed that division of sentiment within the parties had caused the rapid quieting of the constitutional din following Suez...
...result, Kitzinger indicated, was that the Conservatives were now likely to stand on their performance since Suez, not platform. Prentice argued that the seeming political disengagement posed by Kitzinger had not left the Labour Party without issues...
...Nearly all of Howard Smith's professional career has been spent in radio and TV reporting, and nearly all of it abroad. He went to work for United Press in London in 1939 right out of Oxford, where he was the first American undergraduate to head the Labour Club; he wore a sandwich board in front of No. 10 Downing Street in demonstrations against the Conservative government. After a short stint with U.P. he joined CBS as Berlin correspondent early...