Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once we were told we were clinging to the skirts of Downing Street. In fact, we're going Australian. We are realizing the importance of being Australian-to play a not-insignificant part in what is happening in this area. It is a welcome opportunity for Australia to establish her own identity...
...Swedes bottled up emotionally, extremely ambitious, and prone to despair and self-aggression when their goals have not been achieved. In Denmark, Hendin declared, mothers control the behavior of their children by making them feel guilty; hence, suicide in Denmark, he theorized, is typically motivated by the attempt to establish guilt in a love object...
Among the seven most populous states, Republican Governors were elected in all but Illinois and Texas, now hold the top spot in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, which between them have 159 of the 270 electoral votes needed to pick the next President. Moving to establish itself as the party of all the people, the G.O.P. made deep inroads in the historically sacrosanct Democratic strongholds?the cities?with significant gains in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles...
...painfully evident in the mid-1950s, when Stalinist-tailored war economies - with their stress on heavy industry to the exclusion of consumer desires - began to cause widespread discontent. Yugoslavia was the first to move, after its break with the Kremlin in 1948, introducing a system of decentralized planning and establish ing "workers' councils" as co-managers of its factories. In 1956, Poland's "bread and freedom" riots in Poznan triggered reforms that - on paper, at least - far outdistanced Yugoslavia...
...competition took many forms, all capitalistic, and gave birth to many different forms of government. In 18th century England and France, budding capitalists strove with a waning monarchical power to establish democracy, or a working balance between the perquisites of government and the perquisites of merchant princes. In Germany and Japan, where the peasantry was too weak or disunited to resist, the same power struggle generated fascism-a conservative revolution imposed from the top. In China and Russia, political schemers carefully marshaled peasant discontent, smoldering over centuries, and used it to overthrow the old order -creating Communism...