Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, a potent election force in the Christian-Democrat victory was: 1. An untimely eruption of Vesuvius...
...there was no doubt in the President's mind that he had done himself some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...
...Republican delegates and the party's retinue moved into the world of the political deal and the patriotic cliché, Democrat Harry Truman fought an almost singlehanded battle on the West Coast to convince his party not only that he should be the nominee for President, but that he can win (see The Presidency). The time had come again. The great game of U.S. politics, its deadly seriousness concealed from the unobservant by circus trappings and spread-eagle oratory, was moving swiftly and dramatically toward its quadrennial climax...
Zapotocky's history was the standard success story of the Communist who works in the shadows, waiting for his moment. In the days of the Habsburgs he was a stonecutter and a Social Democrat. When, after World War I, Lenin changed the name of Russian Bolshevism from Social Democracy to Communism, Zapotocky changed his label too. He became one of the first Communist deputies in free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed...
Vassar College's C. (for Clara) Mildred Thompson, 66, starchy, pince-nezed dean (for 25 years), "map-minded" history professor, U.S. delegate to the conference that founded UNESCO, outspoken feminist, internationalist and F.D.R. Democrat. More respected than beloved, Atlanta-born Dean Thompson briskly shook hands on registration day with every new Vassar girl, thereafter kept a cold eye on grades and credits until commencement...