Word: said
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revise the party's 40-year-old constitutional pledge of "common ownership of the means of production," and work out "fundamental principles of British democratic socialism as we see them today-in 1959 and not 1918." Winding up a speech that won only an occasional scattered handclap, Gaitskell said: "I would rather forgo the cheers in the hope of more votes later...
...Gaitskell and Barbara Castle. Nye Bevan had his own view of the proper socialist future: "In a modern society it is impossible to get rational order by leaving things to private economic adventure. Because I am a socialist, I believe in national ownership. I believe in what Hugh Gaitskell said yesterday, because I don't believe in a monolithic society with public ownership of everything. But we'll never have order until we have a planned economy, an economy in which the nation determines its own priorities." On this note, the party inquest ended: Nye Bevan had chosen...
...carrying a submachine gun, marched the no miles from Dorset to London, eating buns and sipping rum for fuel, staggered across the Charing Cross finish line in mid-London 36 hr. 27 min. later, gasped: "Tell that to the marines!" The marines were serenely proud of his deed. Said a Marine surgeon: "We learned a lot. There were emotional stresses during the long, lonely night part of his march...
...after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace of the Pyrenees, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations met again. What Napoleon did in between was not mentioned. Said Castiella: "The day of complete friendship and loyalty between Europeans has come...
...Blinders. Francesco shifted his assault to her parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. "I'm well off," he said. "I have a good character. Angela will be happy with me." Sadly, Angela's relatives reported: "She isn't interested. She doesn't like you." But Francesco wore the blinders of true love. Meeting Angela on the street, he would say imploringly, "I'm still waiting for an answer. When will you marry me?" At first, she ignored him; then she snapped: "Stupid! Imbecile!" To her friends she said: "I admit he's a good...