Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell me, where will the grownups go/ While London's swinging to and fro?/ Who'll sail the sea, who'll mind the shop,/ If the whole bloody country opts for "Pop"?/ Should it happen, this I ween,/ Not even God can save the Queen...
...sliding, almost imperceptibly, into old age." He appeared hearty enough in the 1951 elections, which returned him to office, but, "behind his bluff, he is eaten up with misgivings. He said that he had a 'muzzy feeling' in his head." Three months later, returning on the Queen Elizabeth from a meeting with President Truman, Moran found Churchill asleep in his cabin. " 'I have been dreaming; it was extremely vivid,' he said. 'I could not walk straight or see straight.' He got out of bed, and very deliberately walked across the cabin...
Thus, amid centuries-old pomp and pageantry-and for the first time under the eyes of television cameras-the Queen last week summoned the Commons to a parliamentary session that promises to be the longest, most loquacious and most Laborious since the end of World War II. As 185 rounds of gunfire celebrated the double occasion of a royal birthday (it was Elizabeth's 40th) and Parliament's opening, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's strengthened Laborites made it clear that in this session they hope to pass all the controversial bills that their pre-election majority...
...bill will be introduced to restore public ownership and control of the main part of the steel industry," read Queen Elizabeth in leisurely tones. That signaled Wilson's determination to forge ahead with Labor's main ideological plank: renationalization of Britain's 14 major steel companies. Already suffering from overproduction and corroded prices, the British steel industry could best be helped by private mergers and public investment aimed at modernization. The industry is likely to become, if anything, even less efficient under nationalization. Wilson thus gave in to his party's left and showed that...
...Dull & Stale." Tory Leader Ted Heath was quick to pounce on Wilson's program. "Dull and stale and very uninspired" were his words in the opening debate on the Queen's Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party...