Word: one
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown, Gaitskell could count on the support of the conservative trade unions, though he knows that union domination of the party is one of the things that repels many voters. The unions, no longer underdogs, no longer able to count on public sympathy for slowdowns, strikes and restrictive practices, are still the most powerful vested interest in the party. They provide 75% of its funds, control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed...
...Rubbish!" cried a voice from the audience. Gaitskell persisted: Nationalism is "only one means" to achieve a modern Labor Party's true end-building a classless society based on economic and social justice. "No, no," shouted some delegates. But Gaitskell urged that it was time to revise the party's 40-year-old constitutional pledge of "common ownership of the means of production," and work out "fundamental principles of British democratic socialism as we see them today-in 1959 and not 1918." Winding up a speech that won only an occasional scattered handclap, Gaitskell said: "I would rather...
...always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his life to exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons in the past month have found cause for hope...
...down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore snorted, in the language of the true eccentric: "Men just can't compete with me. I'm super...
...assure the security of Western Europe," wrote Charles de Gaulle in the final volume of his memoirs, it will be necessary for France "to lead into one political, economic and strategic grouping the states whose frontiers run with the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees...