Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garrick seemed old and tired when he entered, and the waiting Laborites figuratively fondled fresh sacks of old vegetables. Nye Bevan came in with a shabby brown briefcase, and was greeted by Tory protests that the bag violated...
Romping past the Royal County Hotel, the paraders roused the day's distinguished guest-that horny veteran of the pits and stormy rebel of the Labor Party, Aneurin Bevan himself. Past his hotel balcony streamed rugged oldtimers who well remembered the "bad old days" Nye Bevan liked so much to talk about, and younger, well-dressed miners and their ladies, with pockets bulging with money-more than enough for each to take a holiday to Paris...
...Nye Bevan stood on the hotel balcony and took the salutes. A child, pink-faced and pudgy like himself, skipped past and Bevan pointed with a laugh: "He is my brother, my brother...
...Nye Bevan wagged a pudgy finger at the crowd and said: "We have opportunities our forefathers never had. Thanks to Socialism, the bad old days are behind us, new urgencies press upon us, but ordinary men and ordinary women using free institutions can do extraordinary things. It's just that we can't afford the luxury of a Tory government. The most patriotic thing Churchill can do is to resign next week...
...miners drank it up. They had money in their pockets, free chits for beer in their hands, and the pubs were mercifully endowed with special all-day licenses. "Fill your lungs with good Durham air before you fill your bellies with good beer," advised Nye, "and before you drink, let's have three cheers for the Labor Party." And so they...