Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East German Premier Otto Grotewohl himself admitted that "capitalist elements have succeeded in disrupting the population's food supply." His government last week closed its state-owned groceries in East Berlin to prevent "enemy agents" (i.e., West Berlin housewives) from buying up the rations of the hungry Communists. Neues Deutschland ominously pinned the blame on "the kulaks" (i.e., richer peasant farmers). "They are intensifying their fight against the might of democracy," the Communist paper wrote, "assaulting organizers of collective farms, sabotaging their delivery quotas and not paying taxes...
...secrets of the Czech armed forces and workers' organizations. He implicated, as foreign contacts, former British M.P. Konni Zilliacus, who once fellow-traveled with Stalin and now does with Tito, and Moshe Pijade, a Jewish ideologist in the Tito regime. He said he had given important jobs to "capitalist Jewish emigrants who returned to Czechoslovakia as imperialist agents." According to the indictment, he protected spies pointed out to him by Noel Field (a U.S. State Department emissary who disappeared three years ago) and by Noel's brother Hermann (who disappeared while looking for Noel...
Even on the front of the Democratic intellectuals new opposition has shown itself. Cracks have appeared in the anti-middle-class, anti-capitalist tone that dominated U.S. writing before the war. In a few years, a novel with a morally respectable businessman may not be a rarity. In the coming generation, the $2,000-a-week Hollywood liberal may be deader as a type than Arthur Miller's Salesman...
...Word. Shorn of its doublespeak, the word was cynically frank. Henceforth, said the Leader, the Soviet Union will openly and officially export revolution to capitalist countries. Since 1936, when Stalin declared that the "export of revolution is nonsense,"* the U.S.S.R. and its underlings abroad have publicly maintained the fiction that foreign Communist parties are independent, national organizations, unconnected, except by ideology, with the fountainhead in Moscow. Stalin's speech made little attempt to continue the fiction...
...Capitalist coup...