Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jokes to people grateful for them), but the government lived beyond its means. Even the doctrinaires learned that nationalization-cures nothing. The best of Labor's leaders died (like Ernie Bevin). wore themselves out (like Sir Stafford Cripps). or proved inadequate forthe highest tasks (like Herbert Morrison at the Foreign Office). Clement Attlee. conscientious and Christian, carried on-not an imposing figure. but a decent one. He was badgered by Tories in front of him, by crises and muddle around him, and by Aneurin Bevan on his flank...
...final week, beset by Tory orators, Labor was defensive on two points: Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, whom the Tories dubbed "Lord Festival of Abadan," in commemoration of his two best-known activities, tried to justify his notably unsuccessful foreign'policy: "The world has changed . . . but Labor understands this new world. We can treat the demands of Asia and Africa with understanding." And reacting to the Tory slogan, "A Vote for Labor Is a Vote for Bevan," Clement Attlee devoted a final broadcast to scotching the whispering campaign that, if elected, he would resign in favor of Bevan...
...addition to Smiley, Dartmouth has two strong sophomores in Mike Morrison and Walt Clarkson and a capable senior in George Rosenberg. In last year's meet Smiley beat Cairns and Gregory by over a minute...
...Iranian issue, which the Tories have ridden hard, is not quite as advantageous for the Tories as it ought to be. Churchill is justified in saying that Labor's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison does not have the right to put the question, "Well, would you have gone to war to save the oil?", because if Churchill had been in office the situation would not have arisen. But the fact remains that Morrison does ask the question, and so do Socialists all over the country...
Britain ordered her tough, desert-hardened Suez garrison to stand fast, and alerted reinforcements in Cyprus. The R.A.F. laid plans to airlift supplies to Suez in case of emergency. Would fighting break out in Egypt? Not unless "somebody else" starts it, said British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison...