Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Iraq's influential Crown Prince Abdul Illah; on his return, he looked anything but happy. The U.S. quietly withdrew an advance text of Dulles' opening speech. Plainly, the Baghdad powers had reached a crossroads of confidence, would not be content with the platitudes of sympathy and support...
Filing past out of the chamber, member after member paused to whisper to Thorneycroft, rest a hand on his shoulder or otherwise show their support. Thorneycroft had obviously abandoned neither his hopes of winning his anti-inflationary fight nor his ambitions as a prospective Tory Prime Minister. Last week he advanced both those hopes appreciably. The government carried off the debate by a 62-vote majority, and Peter Thorneycroft voted with his party. But in resigning, Thorneycroft had come close to winning the fight he had lost in the Cabinet. For many of his fellow Tories had voted...
Mark Frazer, wearing the clothes and upper-class manner of his Cambridge background, goes to his office, does his work, comes home. If asked, he insists that he is unwavering in his support of the Soviet system, and that he would rather live in Moscow than anywhere else in the world. It is either that or the bottle...
...report last week made it seem unlikely he could ever serve again. With new elections scheduled for April, the scramble for National Party power is likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists of the Cape Town area. As a compromise, party leadership may fall to Minister of Justice Charles Swart, whose most notable recent contributions to jurisprudence have been his anti-Communist laws, his introduction of whipping for criminals, and his recent bill urging the death...
...though Lim Chin Siong is still lodged behind the towering grey walls of Changi prison, his colleagues on the outside are still working untiringly to build up popular support for his People's Action Party. "Singapore," said a Western diplomat recently, "may wake up one morning soon to find itself with the first democratically elected Communist government in history...