Word: contended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speeches Mao rejected the doubts of some Chinese bureaucrats as to the wisdom of his policy of "let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend": "Marx never said that he should not be criticized. To those who do not follow that teaching of Marx, I would address an old saying: he who does not allow himself to be criticized during his life will be criticized after death." And last week, as an encouragement to some understandably timid flowers, the Peking regime released Author Hu Feng, whose arrest in 1955 was the keystone of a campaign...
Nuri and Nasser now contend for Arab leadership, but the rivalry between the peoples of the Euphrates and the Nile valleys is actually as old as civilization, which first dawned in their valleys. Then, competing empires reached out from Babylon and Thebes into the land between-the land of the Bible-and as the tides of conquest and reconquest ebbed and flowed, the children of Israel and other would-be neutrals were swept off now to Egyptian bondage, now to Babylonian captivity. Today, though faces in the modern Iraqi and Egyptian crowds often show startling similarity to the classic profiles...
...second is more important. It argues that without a recurrent check in the from of grade sheets, there would be no impulse for students to do any work at all. They contend essentially, with Keppel, that though some faults may exist in the current system, student immaturity is the basic problem, and would not be removed by removing the present goals of their immature student...
...poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some of the marches it was soon to contend with-Communism's booming International or Nazi Germany's gutter hymn, the Horst Wessel Song-it lacked steel. It was really a recessional...
...more than 60% of whose 12 million members have come in since the Reds came to power, has grown fat and arrogant in office. The remedy, he announced sternly, was for bureaucrats to stop ignoring his year-old slogan, "Let all flowers bloom together, let rival schools of thought contend." Bureaucrats should get out and mix with the people and heed their complaints. In particular, said a subsequent party directive, all Communist Party members should "perform physical labor regularly, to associate with the masses and eliminate offensive distinctions...