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Garrick seemed old and tired when he entered, and the waiting Laborites figuratively fondled fresh sacks of old vegetables. Nye Bevan came in with a shabby brown briefcase, and was greeted by Tory protests that the bag violated...
...will not answer a question if I do not choose," snapped Churchill. On the "new pattern" of rearmament, Churchill spoke words that were almost a steal from the lines spouted for months by Nye Bevan: "The defense programs must be kept within the limits of our economic strength." Machinery, automobiles, armaments and other metal-using industries would have to be given a higher priority for export goods, and defense production would have to suffer. Well, how much...
...before the House were the allied agreements to give Germany its freedom in return for German rearmament. There was little to argue about: the principles were first espoused by Socialists when in power. Yet. egged on by Nye Bevan's leftists, Labor tried to defeat the agreements, on the feeble ground that the timing is "inopportune...
Tale," Hir shoes were laced on hir legges hye;/ She was a prymerole, a pigges-nye, Coghill, aware that no modern woman would care to be compared to a pig's eye, freshens her up like this: High shoes she wore, and laced them to the top./ She was a daisy, () a lollipop...
...miners drank it up. They had money in their pockets, free chits for beer in their hands, and the pubs were mercifully endowed with special all-day licenses. "Fill your lungs with good Durham air before you fill your bellies with good beer," advised Nye, "and before you drink, let's have three cheers for the Labor Party." And so they...