Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooty stadium, home of champion boxers and second-rate wrestlers, 76-year-old Battler Winston Churchill, looking like a grey kewpie, swung some grandiloquent haymakers at Labor's bungling of the Iranian oil dispute, which the London Observer called a diplomatic defeat in some ways worse than Munich. "It will be my duty," said Winnie, "to expose the melancholy story of inadvertence, incompetence, indecision and final collapse which has marked the policy of our Socialist rulers...
...elected--but Beer figures that Labor "might want the Conservatives alone to take the blame for the rough winter coming up." More-over, this is an old Churchill tactic, and Beer doubts very much that Labor would join up, in any case. "Even in 1940 it took Munich and Hitler on the march to work up the British into a fighting mood...
...forward holding the watering can of wealth. The rocky pathway he had endured for so long turned verdant and fruitful, and headwaiters stepped forth softly to greet him and smile with lowered eyes. He became a patron of the arts and sponsored a show of new German paintings in Munich. He threw a reception and dinner party for his old neighbors, President & Mrs. Harry Truman, at his fabulous Missouri farm, frequently squired daughter Margaret to public functions...
...back of each leaflet were listed wave lengths and schedules of major free-world stations broadcasting to Czechoslovakia. From Munich, Radio Free Europe urged Czech students, postmen, housewives, civil servants to pick up the leaflets and distribute them as widely as possible...
Scrap-happy "A.P." early decided what his own role in the House should be. He would sail against the prevailing windbags. For 14 years, while party bigwigs huffed & puffed about Munich and the dollar gap, Member Herbert concentrated on unpretentious but warmly human legislation. Items: more lenient divorce laws, Sunday theater, uniform pub hours. It was not always easy. Introducing a bill could become an endurance test. He more than once "bumped," i.e., bobbed up & down, for four and five hours before he finally caught the Speaker...