Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maurice Thorez bent his bull neck and buried his head in his hands. In the town hall of Gentilly, near Paris, he was presiding over a meeting of the French Communist Party's Central Committee. He was presiding, but the man in charge was a former schoolteacher, handsome 41-year-old Etienne Fajon. And, in front of all the comrades, Fajon was giving him a polite but painful roasting...
...following three points: 1) a blinder reliance on the Soviet Union, and a greater propaganda campaign to justify the role of the Soviet Union before & after the war; 2) a greater willingness on the part of the French party leadership to accept criticism from within the French Central Committee, or from other Communist parties; 3) greater emphasis on the fact that the only real form of national independence is total dependence on the Soviet Union...
...Resistentialism is a philosophy of tragic grandeur. It is difficult to give an account of it in textbook English after hearing Ventre's witty aphorisms, but I will try. Resistentialism derives its name from its central thesis that Things (res) resist (résister) men . . . Pre-atomic philosophies . . . were concerned merely with what men think about Things. Now, Resistentialism is the philosophy of what Things think about...
...howl of dismay was only one in the millions that made up the screaming wake of China's jet-propelled inflation last week. In two days, while Chiang Kai-shek was desperately trying to bolster the morale of his dispirited armies in Central China, the value of China's currency on Shanghai's black market dropped by half. In Shanghai a wet-nurse unable to find food for her family went on strike, demanding 100 lbs. of rice from her employer. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary $16 million...
...Show. One enthusiast has estimated that its central terminal area-offices, depots, waiting rooms, plane ramps and parking spaces-will be bigger than eight Yankee Stadiums, five Rose Bowls and six Madison Square Gardens. To keep the passengers happy-and spending-the Authority hopes to build a hotel, movie theaters, a sports arena. By 1958, $170,000,000 will have been spent to make Idlewild a sightseeing center whose income will pay for the chronic deficits of airport operation...