Word: agrarianism
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...land they and their ancestors had always tilled for the enrichment of others. Brightly dressed sword dancers swung their great curved sabers in a fierce ballet. A spare, bearded mullah on the edge of the crowd intoned verses from the Koran. The peasants greeted each statement by Minister of Agrarian Reform Ahmed Abdel Karim with a rhythmic chant: "Down with feudalism! Down with imperialism! Down with dictatorship! Down with Communism! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser!" The mullah shrilled his enthusiastic agreement: "In the name of Allah, chase out the demons...
...propagandists still exhort the army to "revolt against reaction, feudalism and imperialism." Syria has reacted with a formal complaint to the Arab League, demanding action to stop Nasser's "aggression and interference." Most Syrian leaders favor the goals Nasser claims to seek -Arab unity, social justice, agrarian reform-but they are less than enthusiastic about Nasser methods or Nasser domination. Even the leader of the powerful Baath socialist party, once a violent Nasser supporter, is disillusioned with Egypt's boss...
...tribute to the market's success, Khrushchev denounced the Six as an imperialist octopus. The Common Market, he declared piously, could not, of course, threaten the mighty Communist bloc, but it was designed to keep the emerging states in Africa and Asia in subservience as Europe's "agrarian appendages...
...language and has plenty of economic experience. Governor Luis Muñoz Marin sent his experts to draw plans for a Dominican Industrial Development Corp., capitalized with $41 million in seized Trujillo assets. Puerto Rican specialists drafted a Dominican income tax law hiking levies on the rich, designed an agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country's first housing authority, which hopes to help finance 20,000 low-cost homes in the next twelve months. As new capital and new machines-tractors, trucks, sugar-cane grinders-pour into Santo Domingo, unemployment...
...Business Man and Melville in The Confidence Man aimed scathing, satirical barbs at the rising commercial spirit of the 19th century. Williams finds an ethical void at the heart of urban industrial civilization and poses against it the values-the honor, gallantry and chivalry-of the dead agrarian Southern past. "Let there be something to mean the word honor again," pleads Don Quixote in Camino Real...