Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...last Parliament, with a Socialist majority of 140 seats, had turned out legislation at an unprecedented rate. Now, with its majority reduced to a risky seven, Parliament's legislative output would be scant and careful. Said the King's speech: "In view of the restricted time available . . . my government proposes only a limited program of legislation for the present session...
...program devoted to such unregal subjects as "legislation ... to vary the constitution of the central midwives' boards ..." and better living conditions for the crews of fishing trawlers'. There was just one brave Socialist whistle in the dark. "Nevertheless," said the King, "should other measures prove in their view to be immediately necessary for the maintenance of full employment and the national wellbeing, my ministers will not hesitate to submit them to Parliament even though they may seem likely to prove contentious...
...arrangement is that there doubtless exist communities where it would be difficult to find three doctors who knew enough medicine, were sufficiently unbiased and were willing to take the time to examine the data carefully so that their decision would be an independent one and not merely reflect the view of the patient's physician...
...George Evans, dismounted and fired a shotgun in the air. Quail drummed up out of the grass (birds are not killed at out-of-season trials), and Brownie raced away again. After that he performed with brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest heaving, at the end of his trial, Judge Nash Buckingham of Memphis said: "I haven't seen but one or two better heats...
When pretty, well-born Suzanne balked at marrying the man her mother had picked out for her, she was packed off to the famed and saintly Curé d'Ars.* But instead of bringing Suzanne round to her mother's view of things, the curé said: "God has other things...