Word: assailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stresses & Strains. The new rulers in the Kremlin inherited with Stalin's empire all the strains and stresses which assail its granite exterior; they did not inherit the cement of Stalin's myth and mystique. Now, on both sides of the great Red wall, the deadly, cold-eyed watch has begun-the Communists alert to prevent any fissures in their monolith; the West alert to find even hairline cracks through which to enter wedges...
Other critics assail the unit cost of irrigation. They say it makes little sense to pay $750 to irrigate an acre when fertile dry land can be bought for $450 an acre. In parts of northeastern Montana, dry-land farmers, who have been getting along satisfactorily, refuse to join new irrigation districts, and so far Pick-Sloan has been able to bring only 12,300 of its planned 5,000,000 new acres into irrigation...
...Poet Louis Aragon went to Pablo Picasso, who likes to say, "I came to the Party as to a fountain." Aragon wanted an emblem, and his eye fell on a lithograph of a dove on the wall. "Ha," said Aragon. The World Peace Congress, after hearing Baritone Paul Robeson assail "the slanders of the American mercenary press," happily adopted Picasso's dove and happily applauded Fadeyev's attack on the makers of the North Atlantic Pact. "We, the people of the world, shall punish you severely," cried Fadeyev in his most peace-like manner...
...science's fairytale princess -grimly guarded by all manner of intellectual spears, deadfalls and barriers. Even the scientists' imperfect understanding of the strange, violent and orderly ways of the stars and the galaxies requires a mastery of nearly every known technique of physics and mathematics. To assail the defenses of cosmology requires versatile, brash and preferably young...
Professor Schumpeter rose above the turmoil of Conservative, Keynesian, and Collectivist viewpoints as few men could do. Instead of attempting compromise he built his own house of economic theory--a theoretical structure that few could assail because few could do battle with it honestly. Often he was a man it was safer to try to ignore. His "Theory of the Business Cycle" was buttressed by some of the most exhaustive research ever attempted in the field of Economics, embracing examples from classic Greek fisheries to Land Grant Railroads. Having trekked over the continent of Europe in a manner that would...