Word: rother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manifesto was obviously intended to catch the middle-class voters, who probably will decide the election. The Tory press, however, was not soothed by Labor restraint. "LAND TAKE-OVER FEARED" was the Daily Express' interpretation of a Labor proposal for government cultivation of unused private land. To Lord Rother-mere's Daily Mail, the Labor Party manifesto was "a blank check on nationalization"; to his Evening News, it was a "pink overall," a "pink pig in a poke" or "a great red wolf...