Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chomsky quoted from a memo written by anAmerican secretary of state in the 1940s, whichsays, "[The U.S.] must prevent the threat of therising tide of aspirations all over the worldamong common man aspiring to rise to widerhorizons...
...interviews and Chinese publications, The Claws of the Dragon describes Kang -- a Politburo member and one of Mao's closest confidants -- as an opportunist without principles, interested solely in power, and also as a torturer, creator of China's gulag and a habitual opium user. By the early 1940s, the head of the secret police had consolidated his control over the party's social-affairs department, which had a "liquidation" division: "So notorious was Kang's taste for inflicting pain . . . it earned him a title," the King of Hell. The authors compare him with Iago, Rasputin and Stalin's secret...
Kilson likened the groups rhetoric to "thefascist and Nazi ideological witchcraft thatengulfed Europe and Western civilization itself inthe 1920s-1940s...
...Like the 1940s movie heroines that preceded her, Griffith's character is smart, beautiful, and brave. After she volunteers to replace a downed U.S. agent in war-torn Germany, she has to depend on her ability to speak German, the invaluable training she's learned from cloak and dagger maneuvers in her favorite movies, and, in the inevitable pinch, her lover...
...1940s standard in a warp...