Word: comradeship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack") Sensenbrenner, 57, campaigned for his fourth term in the typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston Westlake, 52, independent Republican city council...
...Europe are voluntarily controlled to avoid provoking tariff quotas; export licenses are refused for inferior articles in an effort to upgrade the longstanding Japanese reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past five years...
...privilege itself, but privilege in the hands of those who had betrayed the revolution, who fed the country a "dogmatism . . . which corroded all ethical values." Scorned-as the author clearly felt that he and an entire nation had been scorned-his unnamed heroine retreats to the rough-hewn comradeship of the stage. After a triumphant performance in a theater crowded with her enemies, she collapses on her sofa in melodramatic tears, unable to solve the curt, inexorable questions that Djilas himself could not really answer: "Why? How? Whither...
...believes, has enduring appeals: "Some scenes of battle, much like storms over the ocean or sunsets on the desert or the night sky seen through a telescope, are able to overawe the single individual and hold him in a spell." There is also the "communal joy" of comradeship and, sometimes, the delight in destruction: "Men who have lived in the zone of combat long enough to be veterans are sometimes possessed by a fury that makes them capable of anything . . . They storm against the enemy until they are either victorious, dead, or utterly exhausted...
...Egypt now proclaimed from his Damascus balcony that "the Communist Party works for foreigners. Nobody in the Arab world will respond to them because they are agents of a foreign power." Next day, under the sting of Kassem's accusations of conspiracy, Nasser dropped all pretense of soldierly comradeship with Kassem and attacked him in person as a man who fights against Arab unity. Punning on Kassem's name, which in Arabic means "splitter," he shouted that "Iraq's splitter" had fought Arab brotherhood more viciously than the hated Nuri asSaid himself. Iraqi planes, firing...