Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Prime Minister had finished speaking, the Knesset stood in solemn expression of contrition...
...time for Japan to get a new Prime Minister. Enfeebled Ichiro Hatoyama, 73, who had held the job since 1954, had agreed to step down once a peace treaty with Russia was signed and Japan was admitted to the U.N. These ambitions achieved, he could go-and whoever was chosen by his party, the ruling Liberal-Democrats, would become the country's Prime Minister. In symbolic anticipation of a decision about to be cast, the artificial trees in the lobby at Tokyo's Sankei Kaikan theater were festooned with large paper dice. The red curtain rose to reveal...
...them, all vied in vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports of big bribes being offered for votes, Prime Minister Hatoyama hobbled, stiff-legged and leaning on an aide's shoulder, to the microphone, and asked for "a clean election...
...party's first national convention since 1948. Even those who could not attend in person could watch from afar; for the first time, TV cameras were on hand to broadcast the proceedings and let all Canadians see the choosing of the man who will be their Prime Minister if the Tory Party wins the next general election...
...next general election, expected next summer. The Tories, out of power since 1935, have lost five straight elections, and they have shown few signs of increasing their political appeal. The party's great weakness is in the key province of Quebec, home of the Liberals' Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. That weakness has not been remedied by the election of John Diefenbaker, who speaks no French and failed to win any Quebec support at the Tory convention...