Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party's ranks boded ill just at a time when virtually every poll showed them well ahead of the Tories in popularity. They have not forgotten that a bitter division on defense policy sent the party to defeat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. Then it was Nye Bevan who led the divisive revolt against German rearmament. Day after last week's debate, the Labor Executive Committee, including "Shadow Foreign Minister" Nye Bevan, summoned leaders of the Victory-for-Socialism group to answer for their "activities...
Irrepressible Nye Bevan concluded for the opposition. Noting that one impassioned Tory defender of heredity had cited Bevan's own respect for the "science of breeding" in raising pigs on his Buckinghamshire farm, Nye gleefully commented: "I must say that I thought that was an inelegant metaphor. I should never have thought of using it myself. I am not quite certain what the test is to be. In pig breeding, it is length and leanness. If we are to make the [tests] on biological grounds, we ought to have the members of another place [the Commons' phrase...
...from. I carry it around up here in my head." Somehow, on a Havana Sunday morning. Wardrobe's Consuelo Gana managed to produce a selection of a dozen more bathing suits to the measure of East Cupcake. And when the show's Louis (Gordon Hathaway) Nye lacked a sharpie's tie for a gambling sketch, she found one in the lobby around a guest's neck...
Bill Lewis, Bob Schwartzman, and Dick Nye were all unsuccessful in their matches, while teammates Neil Slater-Booth and George Lemann won. In the closest of the five matches, Lemann lost his first two games to Joe Barr. Behind 14-2 in what proved the deciding game of the match, Lemann came back to defeat Barr 17-16, andchalk up one of the Crimson's two wins...
...impact upon America of the launching of the two Russian satellites. " Americans, he said, took the Russian success as "a blow in the heartland. It will be a long time indeed, before the American people can be brought to forget what they regard as a deep humiliation." So saying, Nye the observer waddled, without fear, from his typewriter...