Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Kremlin likes to paint life on a Soviet collective farm as spiritually rich and financially rewarding. The kolkhoz manager is always a cross between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant. Though foreigners laugh off the myth...
The fire set the entire ACT program working again. It not only opened the community to the volunteers, but it quelled the vestiges of discontent among the Corpsmen, then nearing the end of a lengthy training period. "We hadn't been able to tell them exactly what their jobs would...
In the meantime, Police Chief Robert Murray predicts that the city's crime rate will continue to increase and racial tensions mount. Says one Negro leader: "Our people have a feeling that they're hemmed in. And when you feel hemmed in. there's always a bursting...
"So that if you ask me whether this was 'the winter of our discontent,' I would say no. If you would ask me whether we were quite as well this winter as we were doing in the fall, I would say no."
The President's "winter of discontent" allusion sent reporters scurrying to their Shakespeare.* In fact, it had been cited two days before by New York Post Columnist William V. Shannon in an essay critical of Kennedy (in that same paper Shannon's colleague, James Wechsler, professed himself dismayed...