Word: premiership
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...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...
...touched off the rioting? Partly it began because in illiterate Iraq, elections rigged by the government in power are all too common. Last July, a few months after negotiating a new, generous 50-50 split of oil revenues with the I.P.C., Nuri El Said had to resign the premiership. A "caretaker government" was supposed to ensure the fairness of elections, but the four parties aligned against Nuri are far from satisfied that his caretakers are any better than he himself...
...Qavam resigned the premiership; he could do nothing else. He hurried into hiding, and at week's end was still safe, though mobs cried for his head and the Parliament threatened to strip him of his fortune. As the news of Qavam's downfall spread, 72-year-old Mossadegh stepped out on his balcony, sobbed to the mob: "Your sacrifice today saved the country," and fainted...