Word: rearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tribune hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell-the issues of price rises, the extent of rearmament, and its encroachment on the welfare state. In short Gait-skell's budget said that Britain had to make some sacrifices of living standards and social services in order to rearm. Bevan & Co. insisted that social services must all take precedence over defense. To avoid this very clash, Attlee on Jan. 18 had moved Bevan from Minister of Health to Minister of Labor...
...last week: "To the Herald a red-hot tip on the third race at Newmarket is more important any day than a spread of Communism in Asia. No wonder British workers find it hard to get steamed up over Korea or Iran or the urgency for the West to rearm...
...lastly, what does she do in her spare time? Guzzle chocolate sodas in a nice warm drugstore? She would probably be the first to squawk about higher taxes to rearm the Europeans, in order to save our own men, and probably the last to be caught rolling bandages, or writing letters to servicemen, or anything else, at least on the volunteer basis...
...boomed his accusations: "I am fulfilling the sacred pledge I made to the millions of Soviet camp inmates, also the pledge I made to those Old Bolsheviks who helped me to escape . . . It is the labor of millions of slaves that provides the Soviet Union with the means to rearmand to pay its foreign agents and the lawyers in trials like this...
Last November Moscow made a clear-as-vodka attempt to disrupt the Western decision to rearm Western Germany: the Kremlin held out the enticing prospect of another Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. The U.S., Britain and France replied that such a talk must include not only the question of Germany but of other areas of disagreement as well. On New Year's Eve, the Russians answered. They reaffirmed their offer to talk about Germany, but gave neither a flat da nor a flat niet on whether they were willing to talk about the other sore spots...