Word: anti-imperialist
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...Africa, even in Canada, are a virtual certainty once the war is over. The war, says Viton, will be a forcing-bed for rebellion in the Colonies: the industrialization of natives, the use of natives in new colonial posts, the return of native soldiers, the rise of a native, anti-imperialist middle class, all guarantee rebellion on an unprecedented scale...
Because of the confiscation of its "Anti-Imperialist War" pamphlets on Monday, the Young Communist League announced last night that it would send the leaflets through the mails rather than deliver them during the day in accordance with University rules...
Kipling saw imperialism as the White Man's Burden. Contemporary writers are not so ready to shoulder the phrase. In France it has become almost proverbial that the way to turn a French writer into a violent anti-imperialist and radical is to let him see Africa. In general, a good case could be made out to show that African natives now impress whites more than the other way round. Among three of the latest books on Africa, two might well add something to the case...
...word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...
...middle, with a childish, open smile and a vocabulary of violent radicalism. Tony's mother was U. S. born and he was born in Philadelphia where his father was a professor of Spanish at Girard College, but Tony was Cuba's most violently anti-U. S., anti-imperialist, a focus for the most personal and violent emotions in the highly personal politics of Cuba. When Cuba swung Left after the 1933 revolution, it swung toward Tony and he became Secretary Guiteras of the Army, Navy and Interior. He was a great one for issuing decrees...