Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the Tories from 13.5% to 11%, and a decrease in the Don't-Knows column suggested that wavering Conservative voters were returning to the fold. Nonetheless, if Labor's plurality holds up at the polls, Labor could have a margin of more than 200 seats in Parliament. The Liberals, who plan to run 400 candidates in the election, may prove an additional threat to the government, since they usually capture two Tory votes to every Labor ballot...
Since Mouse was produced by Englishmen, it's not surprising that Grand Fenwick is slightly British. Its tiny parliament is divided into exaggerated Tories in morning clothes and cravats and stereotyped socialists in identical, ill-fitting brown suits. Its Duchess, charmingly played by Margaret Rutherford, calls herself "we" and suggests that the matter of indoor plumbing be referred to the Privy Council...
...committee tried to bring Eyre to trial for murder, but they could never get an indictment, even though the Lord Chief Justice declared that Eyre had broken the law. Eventually the committee gave up. John Stuart Mill, Eyre's most implacable foe, was defeated for re-election to Parliament...
...House debate will probably be held soon after Parliament reconvenes Oct. 29, and already there was talk that if it does not prove too damaging to the government, Macmillan may decorously make way for the younger leader for whom many Tories are clamoring. Lingering Tory hopes of a quickie election this fall were dented last week by the latest Gallup poll, which indicated that the nation's vigorous economic recovery had done nothing to restore voters' confidence in the government. If elections were held tomorrow, said Gallup, a record 42% would vote Labor, only 29% Conservative...
Ousted from the Majlis (parliament) were the landlords who systematically gutted the Shah's attempts to modernize Iran's feudal way of life. Swept into office was a group of new men - land reformers, labor representatives and economic experts- almost all of whom had never been elected to anything before. Among the new faces: six women, including the wife of the mayor of Teheran. All were hand-picked by the Shah's National Union, which won 171 of the Majlis' 200 seats, according to nearly complete returns from an estimated 3,000,000 voters...