Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first week as Canada's new Tory Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker moved on a grand stage. Only two days after he was sworn into office, Diefenbaker flew to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. He had an audience with the Queen, and dinner at Windsor Castle; he spent a weekend at Chequers, and got a request from Madame Tussaud's that he sit for a wax statue. Prime Minister Diefenbaker flashed a happy grin, confided to a friend: "I'm enjoying...
...grand total of paper profits from the four companies, based on last week's stock prices, came to $300,691,246. The companies' biggest worry now is the angry glint in the eye of John Diefenbaker, the country's new Prime Minister, which might lead to a royal commission to find out who all the lucky insiders were...
...prime reason for G.M.'s change of mind is the soaring U.S. sales of small foreign cars, which may double in 1957 to 200,000 (about 4% of the total U.S. market). While steady inroads on U.S. low-cost models are being made by such foreign standouts as West Germany's Volkswagen, Ford and American Motors have also been cashing in. In the first four months of this year, British Ford sales in the U.S. hit 3,201 v. 717 in the same period last year. Sales of American Motors Corp.'s Metropolitan, made by Austin...
William Ewart Gladstone, his more ardent admirers were to become convinced, had been sent to earth to trounce the foul Tory fiend Benjamin Disraeli, to be four times Liberal Prime Minister of Britain and, finally, to translate God's blunt, muttered injunctions into eloquent sentences of interminable length. History records William's success in all these spheres, but it bypasses his extraordinary wife. Catherine was such an attractive woman that even Queen Victoria, who came to loathe Gladstone, almost forgave her for being his wife. Every morning, when they were at their favorite country house, the Gladstones walked...
...survived her husband by two years, bore him eight children. In many ways he was a child to her too, and she was protective about him. One dinner guest who differed with William on the subject of opium felt a note smuggled into his hand: "Do not contradict the Prime Minister." But when "England's voice," speaking through Gladstone, went on too long and Catherine felt that the pumped-out moment had arrived, she could be firm about cutting him off. Once she hurled a phrase at him that is the measure of the woman: "Oh, William dear...