Word: true
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubbish!" cried a voice from the audience. Gaitskell persisted: Nationalism is "only one means" to achieve a modern Labor Party's true end-building a classless society based on economic and social justice. "No, no," shouted some delegates. But Gaitskell urged that it was time to revise the party's 40-year-old constitutional pledge of "common ownership of the means of production," and work out "fundamental principles of British democratic socialism as we see them today-in 1959 and not 1918." Winding up a speech that won only an occasional scattered handclap, Gaitskell said: "I would rather...
...made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore snorted, in the language of the true eccentric: "Men just can't compete with me. I'm super...
...parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. "I'm well off," he said. "I have a good character. Angela will be happy with me." Sadly, Angela's relatives reported: "She isn't interested. She doesn't like you." But Francesco wore the blinders of true love. Meeting Angela on the street, he would say imploringly, "I'm still waiting for an answer. When will you marry me?" At first, she ignored him; then she snapped: "Stupid! Imbecile!" To her friends she said: "I admit he's a good catch for some girl, but why does...
...this Christmas celebration, but hard to find fault with the sound. There are too many wailing choristers and glutinous strings in the standard selections (White Christmas, Jingle Bells), but the 1,453 bells of the Carillon Americana brazen it out with a clarity and resonance sure to pin any true stereo...
...driven to drink by outrageous fortune, but just before his death he experienced a transfiguration in which the heroic drunk and the dissolving genius were transformed and redeemed in a last great love. The notion is so silly that not even the moviemakers could convince themselves it was true. Scarcely a line in Sy (The Big Country) Bartlett's script rings true, and some of them are almost ridiculously false. ("How did a girl as pretty as you get to be the biggest witch in Hollywood?" a famous actress shrieks at Sheilah. "Only the second biggest," Sheilah purrs back...