Word: amy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Y'Ami to Tawitawi, the 1,200-mile-long Philippine archipelago resounded for two months with politicians' haranguing voices, but the nation's No. 1 grassroots campaigner, the man who had most at stake in last week's off-presidential-year election, made only two major speeches. "I want to see if the people will fight my battle for me," said President Ramon Magsaysay...
Said ex-Premier Antoine Pinay: "In comparing the conferences of Geneva and Brussels, Mr. Premier, you have implied it was easier to get along with the Communist countries than with our friends and allies. If Chou En-lai seemed a more ami able negotiator than Monsieur Spaak, that is no doubt because you did more to reach understanding with the former than with the latter...
...prison sentences as drastic as five years. On top of threat and punishment, the Reds tried by public ridicule to halt the sad parade of their hungry subjects. In Ruppin they put up posters showing a local man and his wife beside a well-stacked table. "The needy collect Ami food parcels," the signs read. "An example-Reinhard Dehnicke is a kulak with 44 hectares of land. He owns one tractor, three horses, 14 cows, 15 calves, five sheep, ten geese, 13 ducks, and employs two helpers." In East Berlin they pilloried Pastor Hermann Erhardt of the Pankow borough...
...they made a few arrests; they seized thousands of food packages; they appealed to pride. They tried force. Twice they sent flying columns of 1,000 or more bullyboys to West Berlin food centers to taunt the long, patient lines of East Germans. "Yankee bootlickers!" they cried. "Down with Ami beggar parcels!" With clubs and high-pressure hoses cops drove them away...
...American program, letting it appear to be what U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant called Germans feeding Germans. This device got the U.S. more credit (despite organized cries of outrage back in the U.S. in the Scripps-Howard press). And the Communists themselves spoke loudly of "Ami Pakete," so there was no doubt...