Word: bureaucratized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ulbricht did not look like the man destined to fulfill Lenin's dream of extending Communism to Germany. Hardly charismatic, he was short and spoke with a squeaky voice and a rasping Saxon accent. With his steel-rimmed glasses and clipped Lenin beard, he looked more like a bureaucrat than a leader. His tastes were simple. He often referred to himself as a mere cabinetmaker's apprentice, the craft he practiced before becoming a revolutionary during World War I. He used to enjoy meeting with farmers and sloshing through pigsties and muddy fields with them. He believed...
...asking Ehrlichman whether the White House had turned to the plumbers because Hoover would not approve a burglary-although Ervin misjudged Hoover's motives. In his earlier years as FBI director, Hoover allowed his agents to conduct such "bag jobs." But in his later years, the savvy bureaucrat was increasingly defensive about his image and considered such illegal acts too risky. If discovered, they would ruin his reputation...
Political demagogues, Administration schemers and bureaucrat conspirators have been known to invoke "secret" reasons related to "Communist" threats and subversion, "national security" or "patriotic" defense of U.S. "honor" in order to cover their illegal or strictly political machinations...
...freeze will be run by a special group within the Cost of Living Council headed by its deputy director, James W. McLane, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate turned bureaucrat...
...BUREAUCRAT looks like another, and its the men who hold the political pursestrings that receive the most attention. The first year Bok set up his Administration; the second year he began to select his own people to run it. Exit R. Victor Jones, the dean of the GSAS, in September 1972; exit George Bennett '33, treasurer, the same month (Bennett remained until a successor was chosen); exit John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, in January...