Word: disillusional
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Zotov is the precise reverse of the old cast-iron, pure-in-word-and-deed Soviet literary hero whom he outwardly resembles. His scruples about profiting from his command position at the railyard, his diffidence about sex, his devotion to duty are presented not as Soviet virtues grafted on him...
Although a public market for shares can also potentially help an agency to raise expansion cash and recruit fresh talent by offering stock options, some of Foote, Cone's competitors were skeptical about letting the investors in. A Young & Rubicam executive thought that the public disclosure of low agency...
"For the first time in many years," said the President of the U.S., "the path of peace may be open." He saw the nuclear test ban treaty initialed in Moscow as "a shaft of light" in the midst of the discord and disillusion of the postwar years. Measured against the...
In another talk, on April 10, 1962, Miro said, Kennedy told him in "an emphatic, conclusive and decisive manner" that the solution to the Castro problem "was essentially military-of six divisions." Miro insists that this was a specific invasion pledge and that the exiles would be part of the...
Todd Gitlin, president of Tocsin, asked the group not to let disillusion over the Cuban blockade and the failure of the Hughes for Senate campaign weaken the organization. "Cuba showed us that we don't have much power," he said, "now we must start thinking about what practical things we...