Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern anti-Negro bitter-enders . . . persist, of course, but ... it is shocking surely now, to find James F. Byrnes joining in the forefront of them along with Herman Talmadge. I say shocking, not because it is Byrnes, Governor of South Carolina, but Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of State...
...inspired Review of International Affairs argued that Korea has become an arena where Russia and China are competing for dominance of all Asia. Stalin was ahead until his North Korean puppets collapsed, and that, according to Tito's pundits, was Mao's cue to leap "into the forefront...
...20th Century. No matter how the issue was defined, whether he was said to be fighting for progress or freedom or faith or survival, the American's heritage and character were deeply bound up in the struggle. More specifically, it was inevitable that the American be in the forefront of this battle because it was the U.S. which had unleashed gigantic forces of technology and organizational ideas. These had created the great 20th Century revolution. Communism was a reaction, an effort to turn the worldwide forces set free by U.S. progress back into the old channels of slavery...
...policy of quietness on Chinese affairs for a few months will do no harm to our chances of ultimately achieving a U.N. Commission for Formosa. Unless that Commission is extremely popular, especially with such an excellent weathercock as India, we don't want to be in the forefront of a fight for it. If, however, the right countries are on our side, then our leadership will not be required...
...dispute came to a head at a recent central committee meeting. Shiga warned against Titoist tendencies in the Japanese party leadership. Nozaka and Tokuda, he charged, showed "sectarian" disregard for criticism, ignored "the great role [of the] Cominform . . . and Soviet Union in the forefront of internationally advancing people's power," and stuck dangerously to outmoded notions of a popular front with bourgeois elements. "The time has come, comrades," exhorted Shiga, "to bend our utmost efforts toward the bolshevization of the party." When Nozaka and Tokuda squelched the memo in which Shiga set forth his views, Shiga let it leak...