Word: rab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shattered party then adjourned its fight to Parliament, where Unilateralist Sydney Silverman warned Rab Butler, Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched...
When & Where? Last week, in answer to a motion that the government "give urgent consideration to this question," Home Secretary Rab Butler was ready to make good a historic promise. Her Majesty's government, he told Parliament, would do something about the nation's crazy-quilt licensing laws at last. As things stand now, a London pub may stay open only nine hours each weekday, and these hours must be divided into 'one period around lunchtime and one period in the evening. But since each borough or local council can fix its own hours...
This sly threnody to the dead innocence of an innkeeper's daughter is as randy as Editors W. E. Henley and T. F. Henderson allowed Robert Burns to be in the magnificent 1896-97 centenary edition of the poet's work. But Rantin' Rab enjoyed writing of houghmagandy (bed games) as much as he liked baiting the kirk, as he made plain in such poems as The Court of Equity and The Fornicator, which are usually found in the sort of editions that are passed around privately. In his new comic novel, Scots Author Linklater has done...
Empty Chairs. Bald and stockily built, with pale, penetrating blue eyes, Iain Norman Macleod, who came to London by way of the Outer Hebrides and the D-day beaches of Normandy, has met and mastered every task set him by the Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly...