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
John Laski, 61, who served in the Navy in Vietnam, watched from the shade, seeking relief from the day’s heat.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2015
Marghanita Laski named it her favourite thriller of the year and, in 1967, Woodhouse moved to Los Angeles, hoping to turn it into a film.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2011
"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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