Word: parliament
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...filled with wool from Britain and Commonwealth nations, the woolsack traditionally symbolizes the landed gentry that forced King Edward III (1312-77) to concede power to Parliament in return for tax revenues...
After the war, Randolph developed into a cantankerous, litigious gadfly who showed Churchillian propensities for good drink and ridicule, but lacked his father's offsetting attributes of literary genius and intellectual brilliance. He failed in three more attempts to win a seat in Parliament, cranked out nine undistinguished books, and wrote numerous newspaper columns in which he vented his wrath on Americans, British politicians and the Fleet Street press lords. "I'm a naughty tease," he explained. "I like to attack rich and powerful people." The London Observer mused that he was "dangerously over-inflated with...
...towering father. After undistinguished years at Eton and Oxford, he followed his father's early example by popping off to the U.S. for a lecture tour. One subject: "Why I Am Not a Socialist." American audiences loved him, but Britons turned him down when he ran for Parliament. In fact, he lost three successive campaigns for a seat until he finally sneaked into Parliament for a brief stay in 1940 after winning an unopposed by-election. "I like Randolph," purred Noel Coward. "He is so unspoiled by his great failure...
...much of the evening, Jason (Pe ter MacLean) also seems to be Lucifer, ranging between brazen malice and wily seductiveness. He has summoned into session a kind of miniature parliament of seven representative humans, and he wants to wring from them a unanimous vote for fire. Sometimes he uses verbal third-degree tactics, evocative of the rapid-fire non sequiturs gunned at each other by the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...
...reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...