Word: bides
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Socialists grumbled bitterly, but Nenni urged them to bide their time. "If there's going to be a government crisis," he told a meeting of his party's central committee, "it's not going to be caused by us." Nenni has his eye on a Cabinet post in a new government; causing a crisis at the moment would be irresponsible, for Fanfani this week goes off to visit John F. Kennedy, and in a fortnight Harold Macmillan arrives in Rome. Fellow travelers in the Socialist high command were willing, even anxious, to topple the government...