Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Five Year Plan was launched by Stalin in 1929, and the collectivization of land and the liquidation of the kulaks began at the same time. The orders were simple, abrupt, brutal. Collectivization never fully succeeded, for the peasants began burning their barns and cutting the throats of their cattle, threatening the entire economic life of the country. It was Stalin's biggest, and perhaps only, political defeat. After millions had been starved and shot, he softened the program. Even today the peasants maintain a hold on the country's economy. There never have been enough staunch Communists...
...fair treatment of its witness, but that is a small part of the whole investigation. The investigation, itself, has done more harm to American education than the dubious information has helped. The Committee uncovered a history of communist infiltration into education all right, but the narrative comes to an abrupt halt in the 40's. Besides Furry and one professor at Temple who may or may not be communist, the Committee found no one who is in the party today...
...abrupt loosening of direct controls -and the promise of more relaxation to come-sent an expectant shiver through the U.S. economy. As Ike Eisenhower predicted, it brought some early measurable ups & downs in prices (see BUSINESS). But the ups & downs were secondary to the historic significance of the move: the U.S. was moving consciously and positively toward a freer economy...
With this prospective revenue drain, the plum looked rather biliously green to the Administration. Faced with a growing national debt that was already scraping the 275 million dollar limit, and Truman's parting prediction of a ten billion dollar deficit, Eisenhower made an abrupt about face. "A reduction in taxes," he said in his State of the Union message, "should come only as we can succeed in bringing the budget under control...
...delineation of the Communist enemy pitted against freedom in the cold war. In his Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower described the qualities that he prizes in the new Under Secretary of State: "A master of detail, with clear comprehension of main issues ... capable in difficult conference . . . Strong in character and abrupt by instinct, he could achieve harmony without appeasement...