Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have "democratism" [May 25], is it not because Congress has so persistently lost face with us by enforcing the will of minorities, at our expense? We have inflation because Congress insists on spending, spending, spending, to gratify special interests. We have billion-dollar mountains of farm surplus because that woos the farm groups. The Solons are afraid to curb the corruption of labor leaders because they control votes. Firm civil rights legislation can and would be talked to death by minority filibustering...
Pasternak, Billington feels, seems to have the solid support of all significant Russian authors. Very few of them signed a petition to expel Pasternak from the Writers Union and there has been much criticism levelled at the leader of the Soviet Youth Congress who had stated that "calling Pasternak a pig slanders...
Billington also cited "the malaise of Soviet youth." In Russia, he said, there seems to be an inability to handle the new generation. In fact, the Youth Congress has termed adolescents in Russia "bugs and beetles who must be blotted out by insect exterminant...
...Union." All of those responding to the poll must have been aware that such a conflict could mean nothing less than a nuclear holcaust thaat would annihilate Western civilization, if not our the very species, and in which "victory" would become a word utterly without meaning. Even as did Congress in its frightening patriotic circus last year over a smiliar question--though with even less excuse--the Cambridge undergraduates have shown themselves alarmingly insensitive to what a global, nuclear war would entail...
...questions that were crucial to the course of the peace talks at Panmunjom: 1) Was the U.S. high command, with a war-weary public at its back, still willing to incur large casualties merely to hold a little ground? 2) Was the U.S. infantryman, his morale weakened by a Congress-coddling rotation policy that moved him out of the line before he had learned to do his job or love his unit, still able to meet the test of battle...