Word: compliants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a huffy papal legate excommunicated the Patriarch of Con stantinople-cut Orthodoxy off from the intellectual revolution that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the last 46 years, Communism has turned the largest Orthodox churches-of Russia and the Balkan countries-into compliant captives of a totalitarian regime...
...does not want to damage the economies of nations that the U.S. is trying to prop up. When President Kennedy himself proposed an 8?-per-lb. tariff increase on imported cottons to win cotton-state support for his Trade Expansion Act, he was turned down by the usually compliant U.S. Tariff Commission. Since then, the Administration has vaguely proposed to subsidize domestic cotton buyers to the tune of 5? per lb., which would cost the taxpayers another $225 million or so a year. Partly because domestic textile men are holding out for a still higher subsidy, that idea...
...Kennedy is really determined to Stalinize West Europe, he may be able to find a few compliant "little four" statesmen to help him. But he risks defeating his own purpose with strong-arm tactics, and there is already evidence that a Belgian-Italian-German backfire has started to build...
...Ritz. Between the wars, the Cavendish became the favorite haunt of London's gilded youth. Rosa smiled benignly on their amours, and could always provide a trusted young guardsman or undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...
...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 can light a gigantic fire...