Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For ten days, in town and jungle and across miles of desert, the people of the Sudan cast their ballots in the first election since their country became wholly independent in 1956. Among the sophisticated Arabs of Khartoum, the balloting went off without a hitch. But in the western deserts...
Across one-sixth of the world's land surface, the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat campaigned for re-election last week on a platform of peace, bread, and four more years of all-out effort to "catch up with the West." In snowbound Lettish villages, in orange-scented Georgian...
Sometimes he seemed to be running against the U.S. He pointed with ill-concealed glee to figures of U.S. unemployed, crowed that "the people see that the future belongs to the socialist world, which does away with all hardship." He scoffed at the members of the U.S. Congress as "all...
Pravda's Straws. Since Khrushchev's socialism does not include freedom to choose, few Russians sat up listening for late returns on the balloting as 130 million eligible voters went to the polls this week. Students of the tides of power were more interested in Pravda's...
Across a land where mild, springlike days were beginning to soften winter's deep freeze-and where a business slump has thrown more men out of work than in any other year since World War II-Canadians for the second time in a year are about to choose a...