Word: paring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Party's trouble, observed the Manchester Guardian, is that it has "a leader who does not lead and a follower who does not follow." When it came time to operate, the Labor leadership's hand began to shake a little. It was not easy to pare down the clever and glamorous rebel from the coal fields of Ebbw Vale. While he offends the solid, burgherlike Labor leaders with his wild speeches on foreign policy and scares away perhaps 1,000,000 middle-of-the-road Britons who might otherwise tend toward Labor, Bevan has a rebel...
...racing. A dedicated professional, Cyclist Bobet wore le maillot jaune almost all the way. And after the backbreaking scramble to Briangon, the last laps across the Vosges Mountains and the black roads of the North Country all seemed downhill. At week's end, Bobet pedaled into Paris' Pare des Princes, a comfortable 15 min., 49 sec. ahead of Switzerland's Kubler. Third man in the Tour's history to win twice running, Bobet earned $28,500 in prize money, an estimated $43,000 in extras and France's heartfelt bravo...
Retirement before Parliament rises in late July would give Eden a chance to take over smoothly as Prime Minister and pre pare himself for a possible general election either this fall or next spring. To defer his retirement until the very eve of an election and then let Eden bear the brunt of possible defeat would be a serious affront to Churchill's own rigid code of loyalty. For the best interests of all concerned, it was agreed that retirement should come on or about July 15. Yet, as the moment for quitting drew near last week...
...payroll, have been hard hit. Last year's ten-day newspaper strike (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.) says Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, wiped out "virtually all, and I mean that literally, of the anticipated profit from 1953 operations." The Times has also been forced to pare down its voluminous news space, e.g., it recently cut its foreign news...
Like a rat nibbling at a giant cheese, the Republicans go about reducing expenditures. For in this election year, every saving they can show the voters means stronger support at the polls. One area where cuts are convenient is foreign aid. And it is especially easy to pare dollars from the funds bringing foreign students to the country. Few people know, or care, whether this country supports an educational exchange program...