Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Togliatti was as candid as he was articulate. Most men of 54 should begin to show the wear of work like organizing Italian Communism's winter offensive, traveling the country to address rallies when he can escape his almost daily duties in Parliament, writing editorials for his press, hammering out the rough issues of party discipline. But Togliatti's eyes were brighter, the lines in his face less deep, the broad grin quicker and more assured than I had ever seen them before...
Stanley inherited from his father Alfred the thriving steel works of Baldwins, Ltd., a directorship of the Great Western Railway, and the pocket borough of Bewdley in Worcestershire. He made little impression at school or Varsity, or in the House of Commons. After seven years in Parliament he was feeling useless and ready to quit. But his wife, Lucy Ridsdale (with whom he had fallen in love as he watched her bowl in a cricket match), urged him to stick it out three more years...
...Labor Party asked Freda Utley to stand for Parliament in Manchester, but she declined. She joined the Communist Party and left for Moscow, there married a Soviet government employee she had met in England. It was in Moscow that she bought her first corset. Into it she stuffed the secret dispatches entrusted to her by the Comintern to deliver to the Chinese Communists...
Delegates from the seven Arab League states gathered in Cairo to discuss formal war plans. Arab League Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha told Cairo demonstrators who clamored for arms: "You will get arms-an abundance of them. . . . We prefer death to Zionist subjugation. . . ." The Lebanese Parliament voted a million Syrian-Lebanese pounds ($460,000) as a "first installment" donation to the "Palestine Liberation Committee." Deputies pledged one month's pay. Arab youths from Palestine were crossing the border for a month's training with the Syrian army, which had drawn near the Palestine frontier...
...pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" he once wrote in an autobiographical verse, and most eminent Victorians would have agreed. Critic John Ruskin put him "first of my hundred authors." Solemn statesmen referred to his Books of Nonsense in Parliament. "Sich," sighed Lear to his Learishly spelled diary, "is phame...