Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chimed Agriculture's Ezra Taft Benson: "I'm no politician. But I think it's a great idea." Finally the President got a word in. "By golly, I like that idea. But it's pretty political, isn't it, Meade?" Replied Alcorn: "And how! Mr. President. But it's good politics, and will be good for the country...
...Times of Indonesia. In Rangoon the Nation bluntly declared that this was "no time for neutrality," urged the Burmese government to reconsider "seriously" its foreign policy. Even the high panjandrum of Asian neutralism, India's Nehru, showed signs of distress-and the Indian public showed far more. "Mr. Nehru's India," declared London's Economist, "may be emerging from the age of innocence. In later years, the Republic of India may look back upon this month as its moment of truth...
...What can I serve you in the way of triples?" they asked, as they tried to turn the customers' minds back to the main business of the house. "You'll need three drinks to use up your minimum, and I can't serve you anything once Mr. Fisher starts to sing...
...will come to your end either upon the gallows or of a venereal disease," William Gladstone was said to have cried to his great political rival. Retorted Britain's Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "I should say, Mr. Gladstone, that depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
...political invective in Britain has sadly sagged was demonstrated last week. Taking dinner with the New York Herald Tribune's European Columnist Art Buchwald, Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell relieved himself of a few mild pokes at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "I personally don't trust Mr. Macmillan. My own personal opinion is that Mr. Macmillan is an actor, and I think all this publicity is dragging British politics to its lowest level." Buchwald's column quoting Gaitskell was printed in the Herald Tribune's European edition...