Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was to be civil war, the Communists staged what looked like an opening skirmish one night around the Place de 1'Etoile, in which stands the Arch of Triumph. At 9 p.m. in the Salle Wiagram an organization called "The League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight...
Taking a poke at the American character itself, Lynd termed it "ideologically naive and slovenly." The United States, he proclaimed, is no longer a leader in assuming new modes of doing things, but is actually the "arch-example of reaction and conservatism...
From the crowd jammed around Buenos Aires' temporary arch of triumph on the wide Plaza de Mayo came a jubilant roar. It was like an echo of another crowd, just two years ago, that roared through the capital, forced Juan Domingo Perón's return from exile and started him on his way to the presidency...
...union politics. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther, an old enemy of Leonard's, was naturally jealous of the prestige which a pension plan might give his rival. So his henchmen, according to union gossip, quietly urged the plan's defeat. In this, they found themselves working with their arch enemies, the Communists. As long as they thought that Young Henry would not agree to pension, the Communists (who dominate Local 600) were for them. When Ford agreed to them, they turned against the whole business...
Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...