Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GREAT BRITAIN The Great Lloyd Flap...
...London, decided to convert a gossipy background article by his youngish new political correspondent into the day's leading news story. Next morning 250,000 Britons ("The top people read the Times") learned to their intense fascination that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had lately taken Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's arm "in a paternal grip" and proposed that Lloyd move down to a lesser government job within the next "several months...
...Geneva there was consternation-and something at last to talk about. Bitterly, Selwyn Lloyd commented that the story could not fail to have a "bad effect on the British delegation's standing with other delegations." In London Laborite Nye Bevan wryly remarked that if Labor had said such a thing, "we should have been accused of unpatriotically stabbing the Foreign Secretary in the back in the course of international negotiations...
...Times story made headlines and talk the world over among those who assume (erroneously) that the Times is the unofficial mouthpiece of British governments, as it had been, to its subsequent shame, in the days of Munich. To make matters worse, the Lloyd story had a certain plausibility. Once hailed as one of the Tory Party's coming stars ("a young man who never puts a foot wrong"), plump, pedestrian Selwyn Lloyd, 54, was all but ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward...
...wolf and it's my night to howl." For a while, in the early 20th century, the wolf howls seemed to be drowned out by ragtime and its successors; square dancing was not revived in a big way until the 1930s, when the late Dr. Lloyd Shaw formed a dance school in Colorado Springs, organized the famed Cheyenne Mountain Dancers. Since then, square dancing has grown every year as popular entertainment, with about 10,000 callers now active (the best of them make as much as $150 a night) and two dozen record companies providing recorded calls. There...