Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franco $650 million in military assistance and defense support, another $264 million in economic aid that has helped build dams, factories, highways and housing. Critics have objected that the U.S. has thus bolstered Franco's position over the Spanish people. Franco retorts that Spain is the most staunchly anti-Communist of all the U.S.'s allies, has asked U.S. military experts to make a special study of Spain's "increased vulnerability" on the ground that U.S. bases have made his country a "frontline" target of Soviet long-range missiles. Spain is the only nation in Western Europe...
...operas better ("Bizet's music does not sweat," explained Nietzsche). But his dumpy little sister fell hard for the antiSemitic, Valhalla-first rantings that her brother Friedrich dismissed as Wagnerian idiosyncrasies. She took up with a Wagnerian camp follower named Bernhard Forster, who organized Germany's first anti-Jewish mass meetings and rounded up 267,000 signatures for his appeal to Bismarck to register all German Jews and bar them from key jobs. When Nietzsche found out that Forster's outfit was quoting some of his own diatribes against the values held sacred since Greek and Jewish...
...steamy half-hour. Wingate bravely bowed to TV protocol and said: "It's been very pleasant." Responded his guest: "I enjoyed it very much." As the WABD switchboard began to blaze, mostly with anti-Churchill calls, Interrogator Wingate began to fume, next day talked threateningly of a libel suit. When reporters caught up with home-bound Randolph on shipboard in New York Harbor, they found him sleeping unperturbed...
...November, the executive committee has made the decisions that Silberstein once made. It can be overruled only by a three-quarters majority of the twelve-man board, where Silberstein controls five votes. The committee's members: Weisman, Jacoby, Silberstein and a newcomer, Alfons Landa, 60, leader of the anti-Silberstein forces. Landa thus got a strong position from which to reach for more control...
...current dispute over S. H. Kress. Late in 1956, Landa joined in the Penn-Texas fight along with Robert Morse Jr., whose Fairbanks, Morse & Co. was threatened by a Silberstein takeover. With Morse bankrolling the fight, Landa led last year's Penn-Texas proxy crusade that elected two anti-Silberstein directors. Landa was also a key man in forcing last November's shake-up that brought Jacoby and Weisman on the board and set up the executive committee to start reining in Silberstein...