Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date of the vote, I will fix it in due course-at the latest, four years after the actual restoration of peace . . . The ensuing period of time will be devoted to resuming normal existence, to emptying the camps and prisons, to permitting the return of exiles, to restoring the free play of individual and public liberties and to enabling the population to become fully aware of what is at stake . . . But what will this political destiny finally...
...Obsolete or Obsolescent." Gaitskell's lavish promises promptly evoked an outraged reply from Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcot Amory. The Labor program, said Heathcot Amory, is "irresponsible," could only result in "huge increase of public expenditure, sharp rise in taxation, and a return to inflation with severe danger to our balance of payments...
...description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing stop pushing its pro-Communist foreign policy and "class party" domestic line...
...postwar growth rates remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...
...Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found. In 1876, Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire vanished from the sales rooms of London's famed art dealers Agnew & Co., was returned for reward 25 years later by a onetime Chicago gambler. Even the Toronto Art Gallery has had its share of thefts. A small Rouault (The Surgeon) vanished from its walls in 1955 and is still missing. The same Rubens that is now at large was also stolen five years...