Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even so, Britain's emotional and economic ties with the Commonwealth might well have kept Britain on the sidelines but for the coincidence that, just as the Common Market was being hammered into shape, two "good Europeans" took over the crucial jobs in Britain-Macmillan as Prime Minister and Peter Thorneycroft as his .Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Make no doubt of it, we are behind the Free Trade Area," said Thorneycroft...
...these motivations play a part in making Harvard a prime target of juvenile attacks. Harvard has undeniably become associated in local minds with the rich and the "haves," and is regarded as fair game for any pilfering the locals may have in mind. Covetous eyes, unaccustomed to any luxury, gaze longingly at the University's obvious material wealth. Sometimes a theft results. Other times a youth merely crosses two wires of an open car in fender alley, starts it up, and just sits there pretending he is driving...
...comfortable Tory majority of 59 in the House of Commons, with which he will probably hope to hold off a general election until the Tories' five-year term runs out in 1960. Labor can be expected to demand a general election now, on the grounds that a new Prime Minister, and one who was not naturally heir apparent, should request a new mandate. As he came out of n Downing Street the first day, Harold Macmillan was asked whether he favored an early election. "No," he said with a confident bristle of his mustache. "But when there...
...from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present" the Queen's prompt offer of an earldom - the customary reward for retiring Prime Ministers. *Last year Macmillan visited his mother's home town, peered through the window of the house where she had lived, gallantly tried eating fried chicken with his fingers, and at the invitation of the pastor read the lesson in the Methodist Church where his mother had worshiped...
Cats in Asia When he blew into Burma and gave out with some hot licks at the University of Rangoon, Jazzman Benny Goodman was greeted after the performance by ex-Prime Minister U Nu, who cried ecstatically : "Your music makes my toes tickle!" It was like that all along Goodman's route through Asia. Benny and his band were scoring the same kind of rocking success in their Far East tour that Dizzy Gillespie had in the Middle East last year and Louis Armstrong had in Africa...