Business, community groups and individuals across the area took part in last month's Macmillan event. |
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Viewed through 21 st-century eyes, the political landscape Macmillan describes seems almost impossibly genteel and good-natured. |
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Macmillan held his earpiece again as if hearing something new, and then turned to the printer just as it began to print. |
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The game nearly took a turn, as Bandara mistimed a full toss from Macmillan and was caught. |
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Mr Crump says the help he has received from Macmillan nurses is invaluable. |
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The Macmillan nurse who spoke to me later was very supportive and sympathetic. |
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Some, like Macmillan, have a page limit, restricting themselves to long short stories, or truncated novels. |
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Anyone whose life has been touched by cancer will be aware of the vitally important work of Macmillan nurses. |
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The book, to be published by Macmillan, is to be serialised in the Daily Mail this week. |
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Macmillan was a bookish man, an avid reader and a prolific diarist and writer. |
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As Macmillan realized he had been betrayed, his whole belief system, based on Edwardian values and social discretion, collapsed. |
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But Apple, Penguin, and Macmillan have reportedly rejected settlement talks. |
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It merged into what was then called Macmillan, and disappeared, as did the imprint it merged into. |
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Macmillan is a martyr to his gallstones and lumbago, and whenever possible he prefers to spend the morning in bed, devouring classic works of 18 th-century political history. |
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A dozen barrel organs, synonymous with the Victorian period, will line the road as Macmillan fundraisers grind away to raise cash for the Swindon Cancer Appeal. |
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Amidst all this solemn and committed political life Macmillan had time to keep a diary and to read omnivorously, mainly but not entirely the English classics. |
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If you are being cared for by Macmillan, you know you are in safe hands. |
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Despite his reputation as a showman and author of bons mots, Harold Macmillan felt physically ill before each bout. |
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Such a gesture might look to contemporary historians like an act of archival vandalism, but it was entirely characteristic of the old school to which Macmillan belonged. |
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The contraceptive pill had been made available for the first time a year earlier, Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister and Sean Connery played James Bond for the first time. |
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John Sargent, the CEO of Macmillan, today published a letter insisting that he did not act illegally, and there was no collusion. |
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As Macmillan steps up the ministerial pecking order from Housing to Defence to Foreign Minister and Chancellor, the politics become more interesting. |
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Of the 28 students who started at Balliol with Macmillan, only he and one other survived the war. |
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Macmillan and Lady Dorothy lived largely separate lives in private thereafter. |
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In 1927 four MPs, including Boothby and Macmillan, published a short book advocating radical measures. |
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Macmillan Press also published the work of the economist John Maynard Keynes. |
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His editor at Macmillan, James Hale, advised him to write one book a year and Banks agreed to this schedule. |
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Macmillan took control of the magazine New Outlook and made sure it published political tracts rather than purely theoretical work. |
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At the Casablanca Conference Macmillan helped to secure US acceptance, if not recognition, of the Free French leader Charles de Gaulle. |
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Macmillan was badly burned in a plane crash, trying to climb back into the plane to rescue a Frenchman. |
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Macmillan achieved his housing target by the end of 1953, a year ahead of schedule. |
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Macmillan was Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement. |
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Macmillan was one of the few ministers brave enough to tell Churchill to his face that it was time for him to retire. |
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From the start of his premiership, Macmillan set out to portray an image of calm and style, in contrast to his excitable predecessor. |
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Macmillan filled government posts with 35 Old Etonians, seven of them in Cabinet. |
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In April 1957, Macmillan reaffirmed his strong support for the British nuclear weapons programme. |
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Macmillan led the Conservatives to victory in the 1959 general election, increasing his party's majority from 67 to 107 seats. |
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In the 1962 cabinet reshuffle known as the 'Night of the Long Knives', Macmillan sacked eight Ministers, including Selwyn Lloyd. |
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Macmillan was openly criticised by his predecessor Lord Avon, an almost unprecedented act. |
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Macmillan felt that if the costs of holding onto a particular territory outweighed the benefits then it should be dispensed with. |
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From the same year Macmillan permitted the US Navy to station Polaris submarines at Holy Loch, Scotland, as a replacement for Thor. |
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By the summer of 1963 Conservative Party Chairman Lord Poole was urging the ageing Macmillan to retire. |
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Enoch Powell claimed that it was wrong of Macmillan to seek to monopolise the advice given to the Queen in this way. |
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Macmillan was one of several people who advised Thatcher to set up a small War Cabinet to manage the Falklands War. |
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As Chancellor of Oxford University, Macmillan condemned its refusal in February 1985 to award Thatcher an honorary degree. |
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The publisher Daniel Macmillan dined with the couple every day during the trial so that Ivy could not quarrel with Arthur. |
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Holmfirth Art Week, with its July exhibition in the Civic Hall, raises money for Macmillan Cancer Relief. |
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Macmillan resigned the Conservative whip in protest at the lifting of sanctions on Italy after her conquest of Abyssinia. |
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It fell to the Queen to appoint Harold Macmillan as the new prime minister, after taking the advice of ministers. |
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Others like Harold Macmillan were dismayed by the damage Churchill's support for the King had done to the Arms and the Covenant Movement. |
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Other Exmoor walking trails include the Tarka Trail, Samaritans Way South West, Macmillan Way West, Exe Valley Way and Celtic Way Exmoor Option. |
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In 1863, he had taken the unfinished manuscript to Macmillan the publisher, who liked it immediately. |
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The binding for the Appleton Alice was virtually identical to the 1866 Macmillan Alice, except for the publisher's name at the foot of the spine. |
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Six years later, in 1963, Macmillan resigned and advised the Queen to appoint the Earl of Home as prime minister, advice that she followed. |
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On 25 September 1956 the Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan met informally with Eisenhower at the White House. |
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However, there were suspicions in the Cabinet that Macmillan had deliberately overstated the financial situation in order to force Eden out. |
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What Treasury officials had told Macmillan was far less serious than what he told the Cabinet. |
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From the 1960s onward, life peerages were preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton. |
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Such organisations include Marie Curie Cancer Care, Sue Ryder Care and Macmillan Cancer Support. |
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Eisenhower mentioned the need to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a meeting at Camp David. |
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Macmillan replied that as well as the cost, there was no place large enough to put the Arch that would look in keeping with its surroundings. |
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Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton received the Earldom often awarded to former Prime Ministers after they retired from the House of Commons. |
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Despite a public image of unflappable calm, Macmillan was by nature nervous and highly strung. |
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In October 1963, just before the Conservative party's annual conference, Macmillan was taken ill with a prostatic obstruction. |
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Nevertheless, Macmillan advised the Queen that he considered Home the right choice. |
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When Eden resigned in 1957 following the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister. |
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After his resignation, Macmillan lived out a long retirement as an elder statesman. |
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Macmillan received an intensive early education, closely guided by his American mother. |
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Macmillan spent the final two years of the war in hospital undergoing a long series of operations. |
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In Sinclair's book, published by Pan Macmillan, Jane's childhood is cut out, save for references to a vaguely sapphic past in the boarding house. |
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The karaoke auction, organised by Bluewing, raised pounds 2,800 for Macmillan Cancer Support. |
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Firm appoints two charity partners Shoosmiths has elected Brainwave and Macmillan Cancer Support as its new charity partners. |
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Macmillan and Tampoe suggested that the best business strategies are those which use the capabilities of the firm to address customer needs. |
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Mr Land, 40, will take part in the Snowdonia Marathon later this month to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. |
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The Shop In The Shed, based at Weston Hill Farm, organised the event in aid of Coeliac UK and Macmillan Cancer Support. |
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Then she shoves Macmillan in the chest and exits stage left. |
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It was many years ago that I first heard The Confession of Isobel Gowdie by Scottish composer James Macmillan. |
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Just before the dawn of the 60s, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the nation 'You've never had it so good. |
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Eden's successor, Harold Macmillan, greatly accelerated the process of decolonisation and sought to recapture the benevolence of the United States. |
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Macmillan was almost ready to leave hospital within ten days of the diagnosis and could easily have carried on, in the opinion of his doctor Sir John Richardson. |
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Harold Macmillan, advised his Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, that the United States was fully prepared to carry out this threat. |
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Macmillan was a major proponent and architect of decolonisation. |
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Macmillan misread Eisenhower's determination to avoid war and told Eden that the Americans would not in any way oppose the attempt to topple Nasser. |
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Macmillan threatened to resign if force was not used against Nasser. |
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Harold Macmillan stated that nuclear weapons would give Britain influence over targeting and American policy, and would affect strategy in the Middle East and Far East. |
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Macmillan rode in a tank and was under sniper fire at the British Embassy. |
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Eden sent out Robert Dixon to abolish the job of Resident Minister, there being then no job for Macmillan back in the UK, but he managed to prevent his job being abolished. |
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Asquith, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron and most recently Theresa May. |
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Macmillan supported Chamberlain's first flight for talks with Hitler at Berchtesgaden, but not his subsequent flights to Bad Godesberg and Munich. |
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Macmillan lost his seat in 1929 in the face of high regional unemployment. |
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Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. |
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Macmillan added Salisbury's responsibilities to Home's existing duties, making him Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords. |
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In October 1963, Macmillan was taken ill and resigned as Prime Minister. |
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Macmillan wished to avoid the same kind of colonial war that France was fighting in Algeria, and under his premiership decolonisation proceeded rapidly. |
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Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench. |
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A Scot called Macmillan, a man holding a master's square-rig ticket, gave me a portion of a shanty related in tune to the foregoing, and also to the British Rolling Home. |
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Linda Howell, of Lu Lu's flower shop in Erdington, arranged a Macmillan World's Biggest Coffee morning with her two daughters Alana and Aina and her friend Margaret Coogan. |
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He was in office during the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, and was persuaded to stay in office by Harold Macmillan after being censured for the Hola massacre. |
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We told last week how the ex-England and Manchester United ace was booted out by his X Factor dancer wife Kristina Macmillan just months after they wed. |
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Roundsmen Ritchie Cook, Scott McClelland, Craig Wilson and director Richard King, of BA Dairies, Stoke, who took part in the Macmillan Cancer Support mile challenge. |
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Macmillan made occasional political interventions in retirement. |
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Macmillan burned his diary for the climax of the Suez Affair, supposedly at Eden's request, although in Campbell's view more likely to protect his own reputation. |
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The petition was granted and the appeal was heard 10 and 11 December 1931 by Lord Buckmaster, Lord Atkin, Lord Tomlin, Lord Thankerton and Lord Macmillan. |
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In 1959, Harold Macmillan had made his famous Winds of Change Speech where he acknowledged that the best option for Britain was to give complete independence to its colonies. |
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