Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tirade went on & on. In effect, what Bevan said was that there was nothing the matter with Britain that had not been handed on by Tory predecessors, or aggravated by Tory criticism during the postwar period. When he finished he got a deafening ovation from Laborites. Deputy Premier Herbert Morrison's smile, however, was wan and sickly. With Attlee tired, Cripps and Ernie Bevin ailing, Morrison and Nye Bevan are the chief rivals for Labor leadership. Bevan's admirers thought his slambang speech had moved him several notches nearer to No. 10 Downing Street...
Despite smiles at the concert hall, François-Poncet became so enraged in Berlin that McCloy left, flew back to Paris to see François-Poncet's boss, Premier Henri Queuille. Late getting back to Germany, McCloy landed at Wiesbaden, 45 minutes closer to the Petersberg than Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airfield, and raced to a new High Commission meeting. It lasted 19 hours, from 11 one morning until 6 the next...
...cabinet had decided not to devalue the lira, which had already been drastically devalued two years ago, but to let it find its own level on a more or less free market. Forthwith the lira fell from 630 to more than 700 to the dollar. The Communists thereupon challenged Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government to parliamentary debate...
...raining? Will it rain? Certainly not until after the Feast of Unita!" They were right; soon a hot sun enveloped the crowds as they watched bicycle races and boxing matches, played roulette, danced, drank, threw baseballs (50 lire for three shots) at caricatures of priests and bishops and of Premier Alcide de Gasperi and tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who was by far the most popular target...
When Jawaharlal Nehru visits the U.S. next week he will doubtless get the welcome appropriate to a national liberator and the Premier of the world's second most populous country. Yet no matter how the motorcycles' sirens scream or the ticker tape flutters, his U.S. reception will not be a patch on the welcome he got two weeks ago in his ancestral home, Srinagar...