Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give up the other. So he goes along, year after year, swallowing his disgust ("After each sitting [i.e., conference] I feel like pulling the chain") and guzzling champagne-the picture of a man too weak to put the public good before his private passions, the picture of a Fascist Faust. In the end, of course, the devil demands the reckoning, and Harras goes gallantly to hell...
...which he helped to organize in 1951 and has headed ever since at the insistence of fellow members. The committee investigates and documents press-government relations throughout Latin America and wields an effective public-relations truncheon by dropping from membership all newspapers that are proved to be Communist-or fascist-influenced "or have any other totalitarian tendencies...
...connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades her to accompany her on a little "trip." She is seduced by a high-ranking Fascist official who loves her but is married. Overcome, with guilt, she shortly finds out that her supposed fiance is likewise married and in mixed guilt and rage, takes the easiest course. At length our fair heroine falls in love with a customer, a well-educated anti-Fascist...
...Democrat Togni is a vocal exponent of free enterprise. He is also one of Italy's most unrestrained antiCommunists, two years ago set off the worst riot in Italian parliamentary history by bellowing at Communist deputies: "I would like to know how many ex-spies of the OVRA [Fascist secret police] there are in your ranks...
...streets. Ragged human beings fight each other for the trickle of water left after rebels destroyed the city's chief water main for the 18th time in nine years. Corruption still runs rampant in the ranks of U Nu's own governing party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, while countless vague insurgent groups roam the hills and even the streets of Burma's cities. In many places law and order scarcely exist, and Communist atrocities, like the murder last week of a riverboat captain and three of his passengers, rate only a few paragraphs...