Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only on one big segment of government spending did the Chancellor's ax fall heavily. While the Labor benches resounded to cries of "Resign! Resign!", he slashed housing subsidies, except for slum clearances, and shelved the government's plans to build new offices for the British embassy in Washington (saving...
...carrying clouds of dust . . . Now this wind is heavy and turgid, oppressing man's heart. It brings fever to his body, ulcers to his lips, and dimness to his eyes. It shakes him with coughing; it kills him before his time. To our Los Angeles Woman Wind, we resign ourselves...
Hollis then suggested to Connolly that he resign and on his return, make re-application to the school. The young Irishman hesitated not. With directness boarding on audacity, he replied...
...them to desert the government. They had differing reasons, but a single fear: if this government was blamed for "losing North Africa," they stood to lose their seats in next year's elections. The dissident Gaullists caucused and demanded that Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs Pierre July resign. July refused. Then, the Independents voted for the withdrawal of Foreign Minister Pinay and the Independents' two other Cabinet members...
...popular following in his most recent, Minister of Public Works, but was not considered an influence within the dominant Rally party. The new Premier drew on the Rally party for his new Cabinet and said he would try to form a "permanent administration." But opposition groups immediately threatened to resign from Parliament unless he called for early elections. Much neutralist feeling was sweeping through Greece, and some doubted that the Greek Rally could long outlive its creator...