Word: communal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beggars, supposed to have been eliminated long since, have reappeared in many Chinese cities, are now so bold that they often enter the few permitted restaurants to bully the diners. Small food riots have become fairly common, and so have raids by hungry villagers on the carefully locked-up communal grain stores. The police-enforced compliant silence of the people is being broken, too. Bitter rhymes and slogans mocking the Communists are now quite often reported by refugees." Concluded Columnist Alsop: "The breakdown of discipline must mean that the conditions are beginning to exist in which a small spark...
...houses, no agency exists to provide for the relocation of families, as in a renewal project. Families not owning the houses they live in thus receive no funds at all to facilitate a move elsewhere. Perhaps just as important, where the Redevelopment Authority tries to take account of the communal solidarity of neighborhood groupings by attempting to piece them back together after the demolition, highway builders have little care for the social implications of their work...
...Social Democratic Party, regroomed in the dashing image of West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, is already working hard to beat out Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats in next fall's national election. The Socialists' first big test of strength came last week in communal elections involving 40% of the West German electorate. The results were hardly encouraging...
They ate in mess halls and sent their children to communal nurseries, thus "liberating"' most of the women from household chores and enabling them to join the antlike columns of workers marching out to the fields from the ceaseless daily morning formation...
...August of 1959, when the village "production brigade" became, in theory, the basic unit, and commune members were allowed to keep such possessions as houses, clothing, bicycles, blankets and radios. Parents could even decide for themselves whether they wanted their children to be sent off to boarding schools and communal nurseries...