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Word: topperless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Topperless Tories. In Toryland, where grow mossier mossbacks than among American Republicans or Southern Democrats, there also sprout promising young shoots of a new species, with Winston's beaming approval. Last month handsome Tory M.P. David Eccles, 47, warned the elders of his party: "If the Socialists can successfully identify us with the rich and themselves with the poor, then when the heads are counted, they must win. What sort of party are we? Company directors in top hats with fat checkbooks? What nonsense! There are twelve million Conservative voters. They are easily recognized: the active producers of wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle Joined | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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