Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the week was done, the wily old political warrior made known his plans to give junior cabinet rank to several backbenchers, including brainy young Iain MacLeod, who successfully argued down Nye Bevan last month, and who writes a bridge column for the Sunday Times...
Left-Wing Forward. It was 9:30 a.m. and scores of M.P.s were nodding, when the biggest of all the Bevanites demanded to be heard. The Honorable Bessie Braddock, whom Winston Churchill once dubbed "that constipated Britannia," plays left-wing forward on Nye Bevan's team. Outside the House of Commons, she works as a model for ladies' outsize garments (bust 50 in., waist 40 in., hips...
...Maneuvering." A shilling for each prescription was not a new proposal: the Labor government itself once approved health charges. But to Rebel Nye Bevan, who had bolted Attlee's cabinet in protest, the chance was irresistible. He got to his feet with disarming bashfulness. He was suffering from a bad cold ("The medical profession has not assisted me very greatly in the last week"). M.P.s settled back, expecting Bevanite fireworks. But it wasn't Nye's day. His voice wheezed, he stammered, he was handicapped by his own admission, while Minister of Health, that a shilling...
...House entered its second all-night sitting, Macleod was still on his feet, but Nye Bevan had fled...
Five days later, in Durham, Nye Bevan aired a few of his current opinions...