Word: cement
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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...
...They also engage the minds of many who think that Mao will become a Tito if only the West is gentle with him. "Imagine," editorialized London's New Statesman and Nation last week, "that the Chinese Communists were given their rightful seat on the Security Council . . . Then the cement that holds the Stalinite empire so rigidly together might begin to flake away." The New Statesman inhabits a pink cloud all its own, but on this particular issue there were some surprising echoes to the left & right in Britain...
...ideology of Communism which has inspired many men with intense loyalty and discipline-even distant Malayans in loincloths and atomic scientists in blue serge suits. This dogma, to most Western eyes, is a thick, grey, gummy paste, but it does cement. No secular government in history has allotted such importance to it as an ingredient of government...
...handsome, new 110,000-seat stadium was literally built like Mexico's pyramids. To have built it wholly of concrete would have created a national cement shortage. Lazo got the idea of scooping back the volcanic rubble on the site into two great mounds, and laying a concrete oval shell on the cavity between. The job, carried out in 15 months, cost about one-fourth that of a concrete stadium. And because most of the oval's seats are located on the two tall slopes, most of the spectators can watch the university's football team from...
...answering salute. Cannons boomed, then over the loudspeakers came Naguib's voice: "In the name of the people, in the name of its pains and sorrows, in the name of its rights to a free and honest life, I proclaim the birth of an organization which will cement our unity." With that, 22 old political parties died and Egypt became, in effect, a single-party dictatorship guided by Naguib's new Hayat el Tahrir, the Liberation Movement...