Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since World War II began. New Zealand politics have simmered in a sticky Cabinet stew. Last week they came to a boil. The Labor Government, with a comfortable majority at the war's beginning, agreed in the interest of National unity to admit the Nationalist (conservative) Opposition to the Cabinet. To satisfy Labor members who disliked the idea, two Cabinets were established, one to run the war, another to run internal affairs. Two of the five War Cabinet members were from the National Opposition...
Prime Minister Peter Fraser brought the stew back to a simmer last week, postponed the elections for a year "on account of the war situation...
Democrats declared themselves "amazed and appalled." But on second thought they began to think they might not be so badly off. If they had been able to elect a mayor, the solidly Republican City Council would have hamstrung him, blamed him for everything. Now Mr. Samuel could stew in his own juice...
...Governor's retreat in Puerto Rico's mountains, Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell last week pondered whether to be or not to be Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. On the university's palmy campus, its hot-tempered students got into a stew over the same question...
...Balkans were a stew of sedition against Nazi puppetry...