Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hint at the possibility of some kind of restrictions on nonwhite immigration to Britain, Butler was in tune with an increasingly vocal segment of British opinion. The Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced...
...course, the Soviet Union is still a dictatorship. But the people are freer now than they were last year, and many of them told me they expected that soon there would be opposition newspapers and groups. You did not find an opinion like that before...
...Dwight, then in Paris commanding SHAPE. Irresistible pressures were building for Ike to make the run for the Republican nomination for President. Inevitably, the final decision would be Ike's own. But in the making of that decision, he wanted Milton's valued advice. Milton's opinion: Ike should...
...make myself." Subject for decision: whether to run for reelection. In the general stampede to urge Ike to run, two guests, privately primed by Milton to present the negative side, forgot their duty. Then Milton stood up. "I was supposed to summarize this discussion," said he. "But since the opinion is unanimous, there is nothing to summarize. Therefore I am going to state both sides of the argument." He did just that-and later, in private talks with Dwight, he could throw his influence on the affirmative side, secure in the knowledge that Ike had been made aware...
...Wenlock Edge. His rare ventures into modernist techniques left him uncertain; after the first performance of his war-troubled (1935) Symphony No. 4, he said, "I do not know whether I like it,-but it is what I meant." Several years later, after conducting it himself, he revised his opinion: "Well, gentlemen, if that's modern music, you can have...