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...which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good to say about Nye Bevan's proposed road for Britain...
...dither in the London Times over collective nouns for animals [TIME, June 4]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 14th-Century romance Sir Nigel speaks of a cete of badgers, a singular of boars, a sounder of swine (when hunted), a nye of pheasants, a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock, a wisp of snipe...
...Cunningham '51, Richard W. Finch '52 (above, second left), and John J. Shes, Jr. '52. Naval awards went to Carl D. Bottonfield '51, Charles J. Keever '51 (above, right), and Glen M. Ream '52 (above, center). The Air Force honored Richard E. Matthews '53, Thomas S. Nye '52, and Robert A. Russell...
When the suggestion first came up in a cabinet meeting that the government ought to collect half the price of dentures and eyeglasses from the beneficiaries, at a saving of ?25 million a year, Nye Bevan shouted: "I am worth more than ?25 million to the Labor Party...
...squelched, though he had entered into an uneasy peace, Nye Bevan took to the stump to rouse the country. He opened his campaign at Ebbwvale, his Welsh constituency. He warned again that rearmament meant economic dislocation. Bevan protested that he was not anti-American-in fact, said he, some of his best friends were Americans. But "It is not necessary for mankind to walk the way Russia has walked or ... the way America still walks." Sevan's red-headed ally, Barbara Castle, M.P. from Blackburn and one of Labor's left-wing firebrands, went barnstorming in Lancashire...