Word: shire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister Sir Walter Monckton - returned, most of them with bigger pluralities. Eden himself carried his Warwick and Leamington constituency by 3,663 votes more than he had in 1951. "Thank you so much," said the Prime Minister, in clipped Oxford accent, to droves of well-wishers at the Shire Hall...
...plot unfolds, more and more evidence of Commie propaganda is visible. The shire is on a five-year-plan to recover deer loses. But the climax comes in the blood purge at the end of the legend. Like Trotsky, Robin is found guilty of disloyalty to the state and is efficiently purged...
...flood of land-grabbing whites, Nyasaland's African tribes were kicking up trouble (TIME, Sept. 14). Last week angry crowds assaulted some of Sir Godfrey's Nyasaland tax collectors and chased some of the pro-Federation tribal chieftains into the bush. Beyond the crocodile-infested Shire River, a white district commissioner and his family were cut off by another mob; troops and police had to shoot their way through the jungle to get them...
...thousand miles south of Nairobi, the fear of spreading Mau Mauism haunts the fertile British Protectorate of Nyasaland. The colony's 4,400 Britons raise bumper crops of tea, tobacco and citrus fruits along the Shire River valley, which drains the 360-mile-long Lake Nyasa (see map). They are outnumbered more than 500-to-one by 2,500,000 Africans, whom they call "niggers" and "coons." Last week...
...foreign to the morning-coated tradition of British diplomacy as a shire stallion between the shafts of a state coach. He had neither the training nor the heart for the prancing and posturing of a high-stepping hackney. Like the farmers' dray horses that hauled their loads through the cobbled streets of the Somerset village where he was born to bitter poverty in 1881, big, bluff, tough Ernie Bevin had spent his life with his shoulders hard against the traces, his eyes ahead and his back braced for the long pull...