Word: palmerston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts in the open. Yet Lincoln, behind Disraeli (who is worst afflicted of all), seems avoided by the birds in spite of being near a tree...
When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
...World Bank President Eugene Black, who was most responsible for working out the Egyptian-British settlement in the first place (TIME, Jan. 19). Black agreed to return to Cairo to try "to remove the remaining points of conflict" without which Her Majesty's government-in the spirit of Palmerston, if not his manner-will not sign the agreement with Nasser...
...below the Labor mark of two years ago. Biggest gainers were the third-party Liberals, who entered their first candidate since 1950, polled 20% of the total vote. Pointing to similar gains in other recent contests, Liberals talked hopefully of a big parliamentary comeback for the party of Gladstone, Palmerston and Lloyd George. More probably, the apparent Liberal strength reflected simple voter dissatisfaction with both the government's failure to hold down the cost of living and Labor's alternative of selective controls-a petulance more readily indulged in in by-elections than in the decisive general election...
...fellow that flogged the women, is it!'" A flying squad of police finally dragged him, bloody and beaten, to the safety of a police boat, and, "in the course of Friday night he took his leave" -much to the private delight of Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston...