Word: childishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popularity will keep him there. No more beguiling or wilier demagogue has come down the pike in Soviet Communism's 40 years in power. "In our agriculture, Comrades," he told a Czech audience last week, "we see a great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There is one easy way out-reduce prices, and then everyone will...
...fault there is, is not the agencies' but the legislature's; and the indecision of the legislature reflects ultimately the inability and unwillingness of the public to achieve a consensus. Perhaps this means simply that the problems are not sufficently acute to overcome American political intertia. It is childish to make a scapegoat of the agencies, and nothing could be more ludicrous--and characteristic--than the proposal in question. I propose that the Commitee meet once a week in silent self-contemplation and investigate itself. Louis L.Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative...
...deplore your childish and hypocritical attitude towards President Nasser. We don't seem to be able to pick up a TIME issue these days without finding some sort of cockeyed premonition of his imminent downfall; Nasser is there to stay. May TIME choke to death on its fury...
...called for the recognition of the Chinese government stating that "the rest of the world looks upon us as incredibly childish in the matter...
...earth is a temple where there is going on a mystery play, childish and poignant, ridiculous and awful enough, in all conscience ... If I have been amused or indignant, I've neither grinned nor gnashed my teeth. In other words, I've tried to write with dignity, not out of regard for myself, but for the sake of the spectacle, the play with an obscure beginning and an unfathomable dénouement...