Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruelly caricatures its life, parades its vices, mutes its excellences. This tendency, far more than Communist propaganda, is responsible for the repulsive picture of U.S. life in the minds of many Europeans and Asians. Still, the Europeans' image of Chicago is gangsterism; New York is a fat capitalist, Los Angeles is a Hollywood tart, and the land between the cities is drenched in the bitter lees of The Grapes of Wrath. This caricature is a fact which every American responsibly concerned with U.S. foreign relations must face. A fortnight ago the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce...
Although there is still much criticism of the West in Russian newspapers, it has been toned down, e.g., "certain circles" instead of "Wall Streeters" are engaged in "capitalist warmongering." Communist newsmen have also shown a new geniality, have taken to lunching and socializing with reporters from the West...
...tirelessly on foot and by car, preaching the Alliance Party's program of complete independence in four years, and the "Malayanizing" of the public services, i.e., kicking out the British officials. But the British are not unduly worried. For all his talk, the Tengku stands for a conservative capitalist economy and the encouragement of foreign investment...
...Shame on TIME for devoting so much precious space to capitalist puffery. We have to admit, however, we enjoyed the profile of Gussie Busch, "the original Peck's Bad Boy" and his fermented empire...
...secret testimony, delivered a month before by John Foster Dulles. Testifying on the reasons for the new Soviet amiability, Dulles said that the Russians "have been constantly hoping and expecting our economy was going to collapse in some way, due to what they regard as inherent defects in the capitalist system ... It has been their system that is on the point of collapsing." Some newspapers, e.g., the widely read New York Times, at once pounced on the word collapse and upon John Foster Dulles. The White House promptly explained that the President and his Secretary of State were not feuding...