Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal situation in the Soviet Union is something else again. Russia is a dictatorship which no democrat can condone and no socialist forgive, and the fact that the autocracy is exercised in the name of a higher ideal neither minimizes its medieval harshness nor justifies its Byzantine intolerance. It is a tragedy that, in the name of socialism, a self-chosen elite should deprive men of their right to disagree, their right to speak freely, their right to think independently -rights without which there can be neither popular culture nor human dignity...
...Democrat. In another Congressional committee room, David Lilienthal, the President's choice for chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, faced his old enemy Senator "Kenneth McKellar, who tried to prove that Lilienthal, if not a Red, loved Reds. Hour after hour, day after day, McKellar tormented him with questions and charges, until finally, acknowledging that he did not carry the answer to some statistical question in his head, Lilienthal said...
Since I am first a democrat and then a socialist-in the sense that I am more profoundly convinced of the validity of the democratic ideals than of any specific way of achieving them-I believe in consequence that our main emphasis must fall upon the ideals and practices of political democracy and those measures of socialization and social control that are easily derivable" from it. This means a theory of piecemeal socialism through the democratic process...
...polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties. I am a real democrat and I am seeking a real democratic Poland. I will vote openly...
...years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance hauling concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink...