Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, for the non-Communist world, the most striking quality in Stalin's statement was the absence of the customary cant about capitalist "encirclement of the Soviet Union" and the imminent plans of U.S. "warmongers." Instead, Stalin seemed to pooh-pooh the danger of an attack on Russia, and said that the real threat of war arises from the imperialistic rivalries between capitalist countries for foreign markets. He chided his subordinates, faithfully clinging to yesterday's party line, for forgetting their lessons that "wars between capitalist countries [are] inevitable." Comrades who think that ideological rivalry between the Communist...
...capitalist world learned that Communist Marshal Tito was involved in what sounded like a typically capitalist romance. It was just another case of girl marries boss...
...appropriating lapta, the capitalist U.S. perverted it into "a bestial battle, a bloody fight with murder and mayhem." Teams are called by such aggressive names as Tigrov and Piratov. A big-league player, if he is not killed in action, lasts only six or seven seasons; by that time he is "ruined in health and often also crippled." The capitalists squeeze huge profits out of beizbol, but the proletarian players are "in a condition of slavery . . . bought and sold and thrown out the door when they are no longer needed." Perhaps because the editors feared that readers might not swallow...
...species of American now almost extinct. He was one of those solid, versatile squires who did their public duty even while suspecting public life, and clung fiercely to a creed of almost fanatical independence. He liked men who worked for themselves, and distrusted both Southern slave owner and Northern capitalist; neither, it seemed to him, could quite be a gentleman. He enjoyed comfort but disdained luxury, prided himself on literary cultivation yet squinted uneasily at intellectuals. He lived, or aspired to live, by the tone and manners of the Founding Fathers...
...ideal planning situation, for just sufficient tension can be maintained to justify the priority given to heavy industry . . . and to convince most workers-without frightening them unduly-that the delay in improving their standard of living is due, not to their own government, but to the threats of the capitalist world outside...