Word: tyne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schools. In Lancashire, the closing of 72 cotton mills in five constituencies threatened to drive thousands of touchy, often Tory mill hands into the arms of Labor. In south-coast Devonport, audiences listened stonily to speeches about the summit and demanded new schools. Among the coalpits of the Tyne, in Scotland and in the Yorkshire foundry towns, pockets of unemployment threatened at least a dozen government seats. And both sides fretted over the effect of mass transfers of traditionally Labor voters from city slums to new outlying housing developments...
...evangelists surpassed the zeal of John Wesley and his disciples when they officially founded "The Yearly Corporation of the People Called Methodists" in 1784. Last week the zeal seemed to be guttering low. As 650 delegates met in a heat wave at Newcastle-on-Tyne, even their lustiest singing of The Living Church ("And are we yet alive") could not hide their mood. By the delegates' own gloomy account, the Methodist Church in Britain is sick...
...employer, an itinerant firewood dealer. During the next two years, with the help of an ancient wagon and an agreeable white mare named Gypsy, young Derek managed not only to get along, but to expand his business as well. Besides selling firewood in the Newcastle suburb of Jarrow-on-Tyne (guaranteed wagon-to-hearth delivery), he took on trucking jobs, even transplanted hedges...
...anyone who thinks that Gaitskell and Mollet differ from Stalin and Khrushchev only in degree is obviously suffering from the strain of overwork. In two by-elections last week, the voters gave their own reading of the political quarreling. The Tories managed to hold two seats in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Becken-ham, but in both cases suffered a loss of votes to the Socialists. In Newcastle-on-Tyne the Tory percentage dropped by 3½%, in Beckenham by 6%. In all, the Tories have suffered losses or reduced percentages in every by-election since Suez, and since Macmillan succeeded...
...dignitaries broke precedent to cheer him and Lady Eden as they entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter was: "Thank heaven Eden had the guts to take firm action." Though Labor M.P.s harangued crowds from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Southampton on the theme of "law not war," their impact seemed to be diminishing. A worried Tory campaign manager thought that Eden seemed to have most people with him "but this thing could change any moment." Though the Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the government, the Archbishop of York...