Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell. -The Rivals. Oxford-bred Hugh Gaitskell, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, was once considered too donnish for the workingman, but now at 49, he has become the right-wing trade unionists' favorite candidate against the rambunctious but embittered left-winger Nye Bevan...
Bevanites admit that Nye cannot command the votes to win. If Morrison were elected, 58-year-old Nye might yet have his turn when Morrison retired, but if 49-year-old Gaitskell wins, Bevan will have been passed over, and probably for good. Over the years, Morrison and Bevan have been the bitterest of personal rivals...
Jolly Old Electorate. From the outset, it was clear that the moderates were in firm control. Fractious Nye Bevan noisily challenged Hugh Gaitskell, whom he considers his chief antagonist and rival, for the post of party treasurer. Gaitskell won by a 5-to-1 margin. The defeat seemed only to inspire Bevan to new onslaughts. He charged that the party has become dominated by the huge trade unions. Labor's answer to the Tories, he shouted, should be not change but a return to the old hellfire Socialism and nationalization of almost everything. "You are not Socialists!" he thundered...
...leader "brought up in the present age and not, as I was, in the Victorian age." It was a polite way of suggesting that Morrison would be expected to make way for a younger man before the next election, probably in 1960. Two such candidates are radical "Nye" Bevan, 57, the tough and noisy non-Victorian from the Welsh coalpits, and moderate Economist Hugh Gaitskell, 49, the scholarly-looking favorite of the big trade unions. Gaitskell is by far the stronger candidate. A skillful debater whose economic ideas are so similar to those of Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Visiting U.S. yachts sailed away with the major trophies, e.g., the yawl Carina II, owned by Richard Nye of Greenwich, Conn., won the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup and the Britannia Cup; the sloop Maybee VII, owned by William L. Horton of Los Angeles, won the six-meter class race. Some Cowes oldtimers complained that British yachting's golden days were over. True, all the great sailing dinosaurs like the 100-1 30-ft. transatlantic "J-Boats" of the Liptons and the Sopwiths had been killed by war and taxes...