Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power, Britain's Laborites gained 204 seats in borough elections. Last week, having dropped 216 in the last local election, they were just about back where they started from. The conspicuous failure of Labor's leaders to offer any spirited competition or nourishing program suggests that had Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called a snap general election in May. as some of his Tory advisers urged him to, he would have been safely in for another five years. Macmillan's mandate runs until May 1960. Though Laborites and Conservatives are about evenly divided in the polls, Macmillan seems...
...savior leader," kept up their insistent demands for office. But last week the left-wing National Democrats, the only political party with open representation in the Cabinet, and a party that has often worked in the past with the Communists, decided "in response to the opinion of the Prime Minister" to suspend political activity...
Never before had the assembly chamber of the Union of South Africa's Parliament echoed with more noble sentiments, nor had Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd and his Nationalists sounded more concerned with the welfare of the country's Bantus (blacks...
...Union." He was speaking last week in behalf of a bill-"a God-given task"-that would ostensibly grant that freedom to the Bantus by setting up what will eventually become eight separate black states, which presumably would gradually become more and more nearly self-governing. The Prime Minister himself compared the arrangement to the British Commonwealth of independent nations, looked after but not ruled by a benevolent mother country...
...supposed to superannuated, and isn't, thus seems to have been satisfactorily resolved in non-scientific fields. With retired scientists, the University faces a definite problem. The academic life seems to agree with men, and academicians at 66 have many good years left. While not exactly in the prime of life, they still posses fully adequate mental awareness to make an important contribution to the intellecual life of the University. To forcibly remove them from their work seems cruel indeed...