Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest blow to Gaitskell's prestige since he took over leadership from Clem Attlee 15 months ago. Ex-Tyneside Miner Billie Blyton in an angry speech declared he had never seen such "knock-kneed" leadership in his life, and once again there were many to say that Nye Be van (now living it up on a tour of India) was, after all, the party's best choice for leadership. Such talk always pleases the Tories-Nye Bevan makes such a fine bogeyman to wave at British middle-class voters...
Winthrop has had success with its fastbreak, using a running game to offset a lack of height. Bob Cathcart, Ron Johanson, and John Chappell have set the Puritans' winning pace. Kirkland's recent surge, on the other hand, has been attributed to new team spirit. George McGarrity, Dick Nye, Don Burnett, and Dave Nasch have led the Deacons to five straight victories...
...Venice resolution brought cries of delight from Socialists all over Europe. "This is a great achievement," said French Socialist Senator Pierre Commin, the man who persuaded Nenni and Saragat to begin their merger negotiations (TIME. Sept. 10). Britain's Nye Bevan was present and beaming. "A great day for Italian Socialism," glowed Social Democratic Party Secretary Matteo Matteotti...
...Socialists, nonetheless, bitterness that was not fully resolved by Gaitskell's 2 to 1 victory over Aneurin Bevan last year for the parliamentary leadership. For Gaitskell--the university-trained son of a middle-class family--not only represents a background that can rankle a tobacco-chewing coal miner like Nye Bevan or a sidewalk hawker like Herbert Morrison, but his Socialist ideas diverge markedly in some respects from "orthodox" party doctrine. Yet Gaitskell's friends feel that his academic training has done him no harm, because he has been able to combine intelligence and ability with shrewd political skill...
Died. Judith Lyndon Welch, 67, onetime Chautauqua lecturer on Negro folklore and wife for 39 years of Joseph Nye Welch, quizzical, quick-thinking Boston attorney who tilted effectively with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings; after long illness; in Boston...