Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power. Said Lenin, at the second All-Russian Congress of the Soviets: "We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist order." The most stubborn fact in modern history had turned up: in a country continental in size, one class (the proletariat) had repudiated democracy and, guided by a monolithic party, rushed in the name of Communism toward the totalitarian state...
Then Togliatti spoke. He said: "We will never allow Italy and the Soviet proletariat to see between them a barrier such as reactionary groups have vainly attempted to construct. . . . Our Soviet comrades await from us proof of our good faith, and we must conduct with the greatest energy the fight against the Fascist bureaucracy in our ministries. . . ." The Cabinet crisis continued...
...things he stood for: courage, integrity, deep belief in democracy, deep faith in humanity, a passionate dedication to the ideal of freedom. When the news of his death was flashed to the four quarters of the earth, the great men of the world sat down and began to construct tributes to him, the flowers for the dead that rarely go to the living. These verbal wreaths-some of them homemade with pain and care, some of them as professional as an undertaker's garland-heaped up to a catafalque of praise...
...tanks, Jap or Chinese guns. Some had fired away the last shell before the climax of the campaign came. Some were exhausted, others untried. In one corner of the Jap flank General Hsueh Yueh had 4,000 men-but only 2,000 serviceable rifles. Other units lacked boards to construct shelters, lacked signal flags for communicating with American airplanes, lacked radios to link their own flanks to their own headquarters...
...early days of the war the Navy used civilian workers to construct its bases in newly won territory. Since the men could not, by international agreement, be armed, the Seabees, a corps of picked construction engineers and laborers, was formed. This is the background for the plot of the picture...