Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a kind of "State of the Union" speech to Red China's dummy Parliament, Premier Chou En-lai insisted that the Communists have achieved "basic victory in our socialist revolution"-partly by executing "16.8% of the counterrevolutionaries dealt with." Nonetheless, Chou went on, there were "remnants of counter-revolutionaries still trying to engage in wrecking activities." There were even people, he conceded, "who keep complaining because China's living standards are so low, and keep praising the American way of life...
...common law. The historic Coke maxims began to roll out. "No man may be punished for his thoughts"; "And if every man should be examined upon his oath, what opinion he holdeth concerning any point of religion, he is not bound to answer . . ."; "When an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law will. . . adjudge such Act to be void...
...such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." When Charles, cornered by lack of money, gave sour assent to the petition, there "broke out ringing of bells and bonfires" such as London had not seen for years. But the petition was Coke's last great achievement. When Parliament rose, he retired into the country. He could not know that a century and a half later the patriots of New England would fight Coke's battle over again, resting their case upon Coke precisely as Coke had rested his upon the Great Charter...
Like most of the distinguished Glynne family Catherine was devoted to "Glynnese," a private language whose proper use was once demonstrated in a speech supposedly to be delivered by Gladstone in Parliament: "Sir, the Noble Lord opposite is such a phantod* and the Honourable Gentleman next to him such a daundering† and wizzy** old totterton...
Made up of editors, artists, writers, members of parliament and other political and cultural leaders, the International Seminar will engage in what has been termed "high level discussions" with Henry A. Kissinger, Executive Director of the Seminar...