Word: apparatchik
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...brought the party to its zenith, proudly traced his family's history in the New World back to the 1650s. His grandfather had been a circuit-riding Methodist parson and his father a Kansas homesteader and schoolteacher. Browder began as a good capitalist apparatchik-a department store cashboy at the age of nine. He joined the fledgling party in the early 1920s after serving two jail sentences for "conspiring" to resist the draft during World War I. An active trade-union organizer, he was sent by the party to Moscow and China as a union delegate. Upon his return...
...week's crop of witnesses came before the committee, they summoned up a picture of the proper Nixonian apparatchik: gray-suited, pinstriped, self-contained, admirably cool under fire and ever so slightly slow of wit. Obviously avoiding the counterculture and all its works, they suggested every parent's ideal of an obedient son-a trifle too obedient, as it turned out. They were treated paternally by Senator Sam Ervin, rather indulgently by the other committee members, who were doubtless mindful of the witnesses' lowly status and relative innocence in the Nixon campaign organization. They were followers rather...
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...Soviets themselves have traditionally portrayed Nixon as a reactionary antiCommunist, particularly since his 1959 kitchen debate with Khrushchev. But some Soviets have begun to regard Nixon as an American version of Premier Aleksei Kosygin: an efficient apparatchik...
...Ladislav Mñačko, who went to Israel in protest against Novotný's repression last fall, writes in Delayed Reports about tortures and rigged trials that he has seen as a journalist. In his A Taste of Power, Mñačko describes an apparatchik whose character is twisted by power...