Word: roader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Middle-of-the-roader Mayer won a fairly comfortable Assembly ratification, but he also was unable to form a cabinet, largely because the Socialists resented the frustration of M. Moch. M. Auriol next wistfully beckoned to an eminent Popular Republican, Georges Bidault, first Foreign Minister of the Fourth Republic. M. Bidault would undoubtedly exert himself to the utmost, for of the three center parties the Popular Republicans have the sharpest fear of parliamentary dissolution and new elections (the Popular Republicans anticipate wholesale defections to the Gaullists). By a majority vote the deputies could bring about dissolution at any time...
...middle-of-the-roader, Lecomte de Noüy, who was a brilliant scientist, adduced scientific proof that human life cannot have begun spontaneously, that there must be a Supreme Being. Since this evidence points to His being our Maker, why not attribute to Him capability for a loftier point of view than any of those possessed by man? Is it possible that He created him to love, and that the knowledge intelligent men of science have amassed is intended to be only a tool to that...
...Ospina Pérez scrapped his coalition cabinet last month, knocked at the door of the Presidential Palace. Soon other Liberals arrived. The result was a new coalition cabinet in which Liberals held half the seats. Its strong man: Darío Echandía, vigorous middle-of-the-roader and new Liberal leader, who took the key post of Minister of the Interior. Laureano...
...twelve Communists, two Socialists and eight miscellaneous "safe" men). Ninety minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
...such statements boosted the incident toward Sarajevo-like proportions, Clerk Braunspiegel, wild-haired and sad-eyed, a staunch middle-of-the-roader, sought to ease the tension. Mused he: "We should give in a little, Russia should give in a little . . . I don't know...