Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minister for Foreign Commerce, National Defense and Wine Culture almost as long. Last week, following the death of Pierre Dupong, who succeeded him as Premier in 1937, Bech added two more to the list of jobs he already holds in Luxembourg-the Ministry of Agriculture and, once again, the Premiership...
...Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator for 14 hours, but had to flee the country for lack of popular support. Brought back from exile in France by the British after World War II, the sad-faced, fiercely mustached old soldier won the premiership three times (1945, 1950, 1951), once in a surprise victory on a platform favoring the Marshall Plan, NATO and "soak the rich" taxes, vainly tried to conciliate Greece's Communist guerrillas, never stayed in office longer than a year...
...Liberal Party won 199 of the 466 seats in the Lower Chamber of the Diet. Yoshida did not get an absolute majority, because the rebels, led by Ichiro Hatoyama, campaigned on a splinter ticket. But cigar-chewing Shigeru Yoshida won enough seats to earn his fifth crack at the premiership...
...upped their score from 67 seats to 73 (only one fewer than the Catholics), and in the popular vote beat the Catholics by 37,000. In Austrian politics, which are often referred to as an "institutionalized deadlock," this meant more stalemate, with both main parties bucking for the premiership. But for neo-Nazis and Communists, the result was a cuff in the face. The Independents dwindled from 16 to 14 seats; the Communists dropped to a noisy minority of four...
...mustache. He might be the man the French lexicographers meant when they defined petit bourgeois in the dictionary-respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great books; shrewd and commonsensical, and sometimes, underneath the humdrum exterior, imaginatively simple. He slipped into the premiership of France like a little-known guest emerging from behind the draperies into the babbling center of a Parisian literary salon...