Laski
Americannoun
noun
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Clement Attlee, Britain’s prime minister from 1945 to 1951, once told Harold Laski, chairman of Attlee’s Labour Party, that “a period of silence on your part would be welcome.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
If only this doctoral student of absolutely everything was familiar with the famous observation Clement Attlee once made of Labour party chairman Harold Laski: “A period of silence on your part would be welcome.”
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2018
For Laski, Memorial Day is a chance live out a homecoming parade untinged by controversy or protest.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2015
"He's kind of in purgatory, limbo," said Laski, who pointed out that WLS-AM radio put Blagojevich's show on hiatus until after his corruption trial.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2010
Laski was a prominent politician and the leading socialist intellectual of the day; he was enough of a Marxist to have a taste for the word ‘revolution’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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