Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power of states which arise within the state, just as kings did with overmighty subjects of old." By the time he had finished, Conservatives were exchanging assurances that Rab Butler was back in the fray. "Now we don't need to worry about where to find our next Prime Minister," said...
...want a Gujarat state!" they chanted as Nehru prepared to begin. The Prime Minister tried to banter with them. "I detect a sort of mild fever here." The chant persisted, so Nehru dug in. "The bilingual state of Bombay will come into being on November 1, and there is no power on earth which can flout the decision of Parliament," said he. From the audience came the roar: "It will not happen!" "You want to bet?" shouted Nehru, his face taut...
Sweat pouring down his face, Nehru tried again and again to get back to his speech. The well-organized students hooted him down. The Prime Minister abandoned his text. "You have no guts. This is fascism! Communism is its brother. Before all this, Gujarat is a small problem. This tendency is suicidal." The booing persisted. Nehru shouted: "You know what would happen if you did this in China? You know what happened in Poland recently? You want India to shape the way you have behaved? Juvenile delinquents!" Eighty-two minutes after he had started talking, Nehru gave...
...been the merger negotiations between Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democratic Party and Pietro Nenni's Red-lining Socialists. By last week most of Rome's pundits agreed that unification was a foregone conclusion. All that remained was for Nenni to meet Saragat's prime condition for unification: denunciation of the "unity of action" pact that has bound Nenni's Socialists to Italy's Communist Party since...
Director Arnold Haskell wrote that it was "the most reactionary ballet it is possible to imagine. Its virtues and its faults are those of half a century ago." But the applauding crowd. Prime Minister Anthony Eden among them, could not clap enough. In return the audience got a traditional Russian reaction: the entire cast and Bolshoi officials stood on the stage and applauded back...