Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rights of individuals and communities have rapidly been curtailed in the advance toward centralized power. Our prestige abroad has reached a tragically low ebb, and our leadership is little wanted...
This graduating class faces the most depressing future that any class has faced since the lowest ebb of World War II. Many of us feel discouraged before we even get started. Part of our dejection is probably due to the fact that the United Nations to which we pinned our hopes for peace, has not banished bloodshed from the earth . . . But, if for a moment we can turn our attention away from the function of the U.N. as an arbiter of international conflict and consider the impact that that institution has had in other areas, we can be greatly encouraged...
...when the Communist power in China was at the lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their...
...Harvard athletics are at a low ebb, both from the student and the alumni point of view, and one reason is the lack of a focal point. People think Harvard is a cold place because it doesn't provide normal facilities for athletes, like the very fine clubhouses at Yale and Cornell. The new Varsity Club will cure this condition...
...fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed at an obviously low ebb was a shot of optimism. The No. I comrade, Palmiro Togliatti, just back from a cure in Moscow, gave it to them...