Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's House of Commons the Laborite Opposition did its best to protest what it could not prevent. "Does the Prime Minister feel," asked one Labor M.P. in chilling irony, "that when, like the Russians, we have had our tests, we shall, again like the Russians, be in a position to assume the moral leadership of the world and propose that they be the last tests?" Prime Minister Macmillan was not to be jostled. "I am bound to say," he answered with a straight face, "that in discussing the matter of nuclear disarmament, we shall...
...Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi took off last night on an unprecedented mission of good will to South Asian countries...
Having seen well over forty of the works presented, the undersigned can personally attest to the extraordinary vigor and vitality of the present season. The prime value of this activity is the enjoyment and the "learning through doing" that the participants derive; the quality of the result and the size of the audience are properly secondary considerations. Still, this has not been a year of quantity alone. Happily, some of the productions have equaled the high level of excellence that characterized the efforts of the Veterans Theatre Workshop here in the late...
...Patience," says seasoned Colonial Hand Lord Malvern, former Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, "is essential; gradualness is absolutely necessary." But in newly awakened Middle Africa, there is little desire for patience. Of the many lessons the African has learned from his white masters, some.good, some bad, one at least is that of the excitement of hurry. Today, in a continent-wide parody of the threatening game of childhood, encouraged by his masters, egged on by his more intemperate playmates, the African child is standing up in his cradle and shouting aloud to the world: "Coming, ready...
...Churchill's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (from 1941 to 1946), Brooke worked more closely with the Prime Minister than anyone else, and much of the book is designed to make it plain that, without Alan Brooke, Winnie would certainly have gone off the rails with catastrophic frequency. Most of Bryant's story will be old hat to those who have read Churchill's history. Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe and Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. What gives it immediacy and historical stature is the day-by-day evidence of the reticent professional...