Sentence examples for 1955 from inspiring English sources

In 1955, she married Suryakant Desai, a tyre-factory manager from Tanganyika – united with Zanzibar since 1964 as Tanzania – where the couple settled the following year.

He founded the New Bridge in 1955, the first organisation dedicated to ex-prisoners' welfare.

The 5.6% drop in GDP in a year has not been matched since comparable records began in 1955.

"Indonesia had a free election in 1955 until it was hijacked by Sukarno.

In a borough where the Tory group leader has held the same seat since 1955, the withering of the voluntary association is one familiar part of the tale.

The poem was believed to be based on an actual journey Larkin took in 1955, but scholars have since argued about the date: the Whitsun weekend that year was hit by a truly British bank holiday event, a rail strike.

As I've pointed out before, no Conservative prime minister has improved his party's share of the vote since Anthony Eden in rather special circumstances in 1955.

Lloyd George, Gladstone, Churchill - he reluctantly resigned at 80 in 1955 after a four-year rearguard action – Thatcher of course, Macmillan too, were shambles.

Eastleigh ought to be natural Conservative territory – it is a constituency which, in the 11 general elections between 1955 and 1992, returned a Tory MP every time, on seven occasions with an outright majority of 50% plus.

They might even have won the final had Trautmann been in goal, in the stadium where he had played two consecutive FA Cup finals, in 1955 and 1956.

As far as football was concerned,Hungary at first continued where they had left off in the semi-final, going another 18 matches unbeaten to take their record to one defeat in 49 games between June 1950 and November 1955.