Word: minority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced and nervous, faced with a critical and hostile Assembly, Bidault showed little stomach for the job. The deputies would not hear from him "either expressions of enthusiasm or excuses"; it was "a case of getting something or taking nothing." His voice drooping, Bidault reviewed his major defeats and minor victories. He had failed to have the Ruhr cut off from Germany. He had failed to sell the French program of a loose federation of German states as the political structure of the new Germany. Worst of all, perhaps, he had failed to get sufficient guarantees for the future security...
With only minor variations, the issue which revived the slogans in 1948 was the same one which had created them in 1832 and 1911: the noble Lords were in a last-ditch fight against a reformist government, battling to save what few political teeth they still had left. But precedent was against them. Always before they had fought, and always lost...
...Francis of Assisi sent a group of his Friars Minor to the Holy Land in 1217. When the Crusaders left Palestine, the Franciscans stayed behind, to guard the Christian shrines. In 1342 Pope Clement VI confirmed them as official guardians of the Holy Places on behalf of the Roman Catholic world.† Last week they sent out a call for help...
...U.S.A., reached Broadway with $500,000 or more already in the till; but far more modest musicals like Make Mine Manhattan and Angel in the Wings proved much better fun. The classics provided some rewarding evenings (Medea, Antony and Cleopatra, The Alchemist) and there was enough Shaw for a minor festival...
...When. How long would it last? A firm answer was given this week in the Federal Reserve Board's third annual survey of durable goods spending. With minor reservations, it was what businessmen wanted to hear: for at least the rest of this year there will be no letup in the demand for durable goods (autos, refrigerators, etc.), the backbone of the boom. About 20 million spending units (families) bought autos, radios, washing machines...