Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anabaptist-turned-Anglican Rector Gates, the 17th century's Harvey Matusow, infiltrated Catholic circles, spun a yarn about a Papist plot aimed at the assassination of Charles II, was exposed as a liar after a hue and cry both in and out of Parliament, was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate to Tyburn for his pains-and to everyone's dismay, lived to lie another...
...first evening Hungarians had called for the return of the one Communist leader whose 21-month rule they had identified with a relaxation of Communist hardship. But now, on the steps of Parliament House, the reluctant Imre Nagy had given a disappointing party-line speech. He was called into the presence of Hegedus and Gero. "Now you can stew in your own juice," shouted Gero. Answered Nagy: "I warned you not to play with fire...
...making little effort to disguise its support for Solh, just a day before elections flew in four planeloads of jeeps and recoilless rifles as the first shipment under the Eisenhower Doctrine. Last week, as the Lebanese voted in the first of four Sunday elections for a new 66-man Parliament, 15 out of the 22 government candidates up for election came out victors. Solh himself defeated El Yafi by a comfortable 19,098 to 16,270. President Camille Chamoun, who holds the real power in Lebanon, was not up for reelection, but his pro-Western policies got a ringing endorsement...
...limited to giving the country a Premier, but it is also to collaborate in the formation of the government. I only want to say that the choice made by the President of Italy (unlike the President of France) constitutes of itself the government in the fullness of its powers. Parliament intervenes later on with its necessary vote of confidence...
Canada's powerful Liberals, 168-strong in Parliament v. the 50 seats of their Progressive Conservative challengers, went to elections with smug confidence. Just before the vote last week they canceled an advertising campaign, to save needless expense. But with the first returns, an astonishing trend set in. From half a dozen eastern constituencies that were long firmly Liberal came the flash: "Tories Leading." The Tory surge grew as it moved west. Quickly the last seat of the overwhelming Liberal majority fell, and the Liberals' 22-year rule over Canada came to an end. When final returns were...