Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glowing screens in France and Algeria appeared tall, grave Charles de Gaulle, seated at his desk, ready to disclose to France and the world his plan to end the savage, five-year-old Algerian war. His words, ringing with purpose, marked a watershed in French history: "I deem it necessary that recourse to self-determination be here and now proclaimed...
...industry, Labor's planners said almost in passing that they would renationalize steel and road transport (denationalized by the Tories since 1951), and let it go at that. But Gaitskell obviously hoped to make big campaign capital of Labor's promise of an immediate 20% boost in old-age pensions, and other welfare benefits, all to be paid for by "planned expansion" that would also get Britain back into "the race for higher productivity among industrial nations...
Outside London's famed Old Bailey last week, Britons by the hundreds queued up hopefully for gallery seats. Inside the venerable courthouse, facing a jury on terms unprecedented in the long annals of English law, sat a slim, stolid, German-born Canadian immigrant named Gunther Fritz Podola...
...Japanese Labor Unions, tried to pin the blame for the party losses on a right-wing faction accused of criticizing the Socialist campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing stop pushing its pro-Communist foreign policy and "class party" domestic line...
Harking back nostalgically to the good old days when party activists worked seven days a week and scarcely found time to eat or sleep, the provincial paper Gazeta Robotnicza blamed the Ziebice fiasco on the fact that Ziebice's Communists were unwilling to accept responsibility. "We might as well say why," mused the paper unhappily. "A number of our activists have come to like the petty-bourgeois way of life. They want nothing else but to be left in peace...