Word: prunings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gandhi insisted that the abrupt suppression of political dissent was "not a personal matter. It is not important whether I remain Prime Minister or not. However, the institution of the Prune Minister is important." Despite the argument, many Western critics felt that the imperious Mrs. Gandhi-rather like Richard Nixon during the Watergate crisis-had come to identify her own survival in office with the office itself. As the president of her ruling Congress...
...party politics. Throughout the two-month campaign, Wilson was virtually isolated from the power base that supported him through twelve years as party chief. Most of the major trade-union leaders, the party's national executive committee and more than half of the Labor M.P.s publicly opposed the Prune Minister on the issue. Wilson and such fellow Labor pro-Europeans as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Education Minister Reginald Prentice were forced into an informal coalition with Conservative and Liberal Party leaders, who almost unanimously supported the pro-Market cause...
Instead of sending Christmas cards this year, quite a number of the world's leaders are saying their greetings in person. Last week, in an extraordinary burst of summitry, it seemed as if any President or Prune Minister worth a Gallup poll was either visiting someplace else or playing host to a foreign visitor-with everybody packing bags for still more trips to come...
...light of the qualified mandate, Wilson's Laborites were understandably restrained in their celebrations. "It is going to be a very, very hard slog for a couple of years," the returned Prune Minister said, referring to an economy that is buffeted by ever gloomier news of combined inflation and recession almost every day. "It is going to be a hell...
...dealing with the threat of intensified military and economic harassment, Rhodesia can expect little help from South Africa, which is aware of the pragmatic necessity of reckoning with the new black states. Prune Minister John Vorster has repeatedly implied that he would prefer a stable black government in Rhodesia to an unstable white...