Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belgian currencies also came under pressure, because Denmark suffers from chronic trade deficits ($128 million in the first nine months of 1975) and Belgium is burdened by an 11% inflation rate. At week's end there was growing concern that one or both might be forced to follow France out of the snake. At the same time, the value of the German mark against other snake currencies threatens to rise above the 4.5% range. There are persistent rumors-denied by German officials-that the nation might once again revalue its currency upward...
Warner, naturally enough, spends much of his book discussing the biology of the Chesapeake's fauna. Despite their feisty dispositions, crabs can also be considerate. Most marine creatures follow the love-them-and-leave-them tradition. But male blue crabs, or "jimmies," take good care of their mates. After car rying them in a soft embrace during the mating ritual, jimmies form protective cages around the "sooks," or mature females, as they shed their old shells and wait for new skeletons to form...
Jeff Wiegand, captain of this year's varsity squash team, agrees. "Dave will follow Jack Barnaby's methods to a great extent," he said, "although I'm sure they'll reflect Dave's own style...
...regarded Stalin as a Slavophilic counter-revolutionary, and neither accepted the Marxist account of the inevitable progress of history. Herberg was a member of the small Lovestoneite faction of the CPUSA, a bitter anti-Stalinist, and an exponent of "American exceptionalism"--the view that the US would have to follow a path to socialism different from that envisioned by Marx. Dos Passos was a pragmatist who never joined the Party and who was less a Marxist than merely an anticapitalist. The most glaring flaw of Diggins' book is his failure to recognize this critical similarity among the four...
...McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian but not Communist? That detente is an outgrowth of McCarthyism? That Nixon should be regarded as a serious conservative intellectual? The muddled logic and vague implications make it hard to follow Diggins' drift...