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Douglas-Home
[ duhg-luhs-hyoom ]
noun
- Alexander Frederick Baron Home of the Hirsel, 1903–1995, British statesman and politician: prime minister 1963–64.
Douglas-Home
/ ˈdʌɡləsˈhjuːm /
noun
- Sir Alexander. See (Baron Alexander) Home of the Hirsel
Example Sentences
Alec Douglas-Home left Downing Street in 1964 but returned to cabinet as Edward Heath's foreign secretary in 1970.
He served as special adviser and speechwriter to Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, who was in office from 1963 to 1964, and worked at Conservative Party headquarters.
But politics beckoned and in the early 1960s he became a speech writer for then prime minister Alec Douglas-Home.
But he also showed political ambitions, working as a special adviser to Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home in the 1960s and in the Conservative Party headquarters in the early 1970s before his election as a lawmaker in the constituency of Blaby in the East Midlands in 1974.
His newspaper columns in the 1960s sniffed at Sir Ted Heath's "stagnant mind" and dismissed Sir Alec Douglas-Home as a "bomb-happy fossil".
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