Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the Law Record and Legal Aid Bureau, Lubell, and his twin brother, David G. Lubell, also a member of the Law Record, faced a Congressional panel investigating subversive activities in education because they had been sympathetic to communist doctrines while at Cornell...
There was more than a reasonable doubt as to whether he would succeed. The Christian Democrats have perceptibly stiffened their resistance to an emergency government. Partly as a result of the strong U.S. admonition against allowing Eurocommunists into power, they are more reluctant than ever to join the Communists in a parliamentary majority coalition. Explained one Western diplomat: "The stand of the Americans has encouraged those Christian Democrats who are opposed to any sort of Communist participation in government and made the others stop and think...
...this gets him into excesses of rhetoric. Carter digs his own trapholes-the idealist devoted to human rights can be downright fulsome when meeting dictators. Why, asked Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., did Carter, in a situation that called for only ambiguous politeness, say that the Communist leaders of Poland and the autocratic Shah of Iran share the same ideals that...
Harry Bridges, retired president of the International Longshoremen's Union, talking about accepting help from Communist groups for the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: "We wasn't fancy. We'd take support from anywhere we could...
Meldrim Thomson Jr., New Hampshire's arch-conservative Governor, on why he turned down an invitation to visit the People's Republic: "I will take no part in giving aid and comfort to Communist China by lending the prestige of Governor for a baby-carriage guided tour of the enemy's homeland...