Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranged in ranks before the headmaster on Prize Day, the members sat, knowing perfectly well what was coming (it had been discussed in smoking rooms and pubs for weeks), but still eager to have the official word spoken. At last, in a lengthy statement uninterrupted by a single sound, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told them what they had all been waiting to hear: every member was to get a raise...
...Ignoring this jarring note, Macmillan remarked that he hoped Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell would live "to enjoy this slight addition to his salary for very many years to come." Just as chummily, Gaitskell, who hopes to trade places with Macmillan some day, replied: "I cannot forbear from reminding the Prime Minister of his great interest in the salary of the Leader of the Opposition...
Canada's new Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker flew home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference in London last week, where he had persuaded the other delegates to start mapping ways to broaden trade within the Commonwealth. In Ottawa he announced a drastic Canadian proposal to carry out the Commonwealth trade speedup: a slash in imports from the U.S. of 15% ($625 million a year). Canada would make up the difference-"mainly capital goods"-from Britain instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist...
Diefenbaker alighted from his Canadian Air Force transport at London Airport with a preconference statement as reassuring to Britons as Big Ben's chimes. "I can think of no prouder opportunity to which a newly elected Prime Minister of Canada could be summoned," said he. The British seemed exhilarated by the prospect of a fresh Canadian voice in the Commonwealth family. To Diefenbaker as Prime Minister of the senior Dominion, and to Ghana's beaming Nkrumah, representing the newest member of the family, went the public's warmest cheers...
...months ago President Eisenhower ordered RFC to shut up shop as of the close of the 1956-57 fiscal year. Last week, with only about 100 employees remaining of the 12,000 it had in its prime-and only $80 million worth of loans unrepaid of $50 billion authorized-RFC took down the bronze name plate over its rented office quarters in Washington, turned its remaining assets over to other Government agencies, and passed out of existence. RFC, taking it all in all, had had a wondrously successful career...