Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their side, the Laborites were making plans to blast him right out again. They chose the biggest weapon they could find-the H-bomb, which had come near to blasting Labor's own ranks less than two months ago when Party Leader Clement Attlee and rebellious Nye Bevan fought about it in the House of Commons...
Jack D. Bagdade; Thomas O. Bernheim; John F. Blitzer, Jr.; John S. Connolly, Jr.; Anthony T. Masari; Robert L. Montgomery; Richard H. Nye; James M. O'Brien John Rockefeller; Michael Rosentahl; Arnold H. Singal; John S. Tuschman; Noel J. Tyl; Charles R. Woole; (captain) Richard K. Woolston; David M. Evans (manager...
...even Diogenes had a tougher task than the special committee of the Labor Party appointed to find "assurances as to the future conduct" of rebellious Aneurin Bevan. But unpredictable Nye himself did what he could to make their job easier. He was haled before the committee last week for a 20-minute confrontation that was marred only by a few heated exchanges with his archrival, Hugh Gaitskell. Nye, who like many of his Welsh constituents once lived sparely on bread and dripping (grease), now ate humble pie with a relish. He apologized deeply to Party Leader Clement Attlee...
...chief minister for the island colony, only 1,320 yards across the Straits of Johore from the guerrilla-war land of Malaya, would almost certainly be Laborite David Marshall, 47, a sharp, headline-grabbing lawyer who recently visited Britain to study Attlee's and Nye Bevan's methods. In colonial Singapore, one of Laborite Marshall's planks was the abolition of compulsory necktie-wearing at official functions...
...muster to make Labor even a respectable loser, let alone a winner. Though his prestige will not be helped by the sudden attack of timidity and tolerance for the man who persistently defies his leadership, Attlee knows that the poor showing he would make in an election without Nye Bevan's following in the constituencies would weaken his leadership far more...