Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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So cosseted are New Zealanders by the costly welfare state of the Labor Party that most have become almost soporific. In power for 17 of the past 25 years, the Labor Party has set up a womb-to-tomb socialist program that provides baby bonuses, housing allowances, tax-paid medical...
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Unresigned to his fate, Tony Benn mailed his viscountcy patent back to the Lord Chamberlain at Buckingham Palace. Last week he watched from the Commons visitors gallery as Home Secretary "Rab" Butler helpfully proposed that the Committee of Privileges investigate the question of whether Benn's parliamentary privilege had...
"Mr. Benn deserves to succeed," proclaimed the London Times, noting that the rule making peerages irrevocable was originally intended to strengthen the House of Lords against the subversive influence of the King. Added the Times dryly: "That threat has since receded."
Labor's decline began shortly after the 1957 general elections. Campaigning on a platform of reduced taxes and tax rebates, the party slipped back into power with a paper-thin two-vote majority in New Zealand's 80-seat, one-chamber Parliament. But within months Labor Prime Minister...