Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article, entitled "The Military Lessons of Suez," Katzenbach cites the inadequacies of the post-Korean War policy of "gradual deterrence," that is, the use of restrained force rather than nuclear bombs. This plan required that troops move with "flexibility" and speed to the area of conflict, which, the author maintains, neither the Marines nor a transport air fleet...
Breathing Space. The Polish Communist leaders had settled for "gradualism." The question is: Will a gradual transition to national Communism satisfy the Polish people? The Poznan trials had sparked a vast flare-up of national feeling in Poland. Peasant farmers abandoned their collective farms (280 farms dissolved in the Szczecin district alone), workers took over factories, and university students demonstrated all over the country. The situation paralleled that in Hungary, except that the Communist leadership apparently reacted in time, and so earned a breathing space. Now something of a hero for his defiance of Khrushchev, Gomulka is using every available...
...other domestic animals except turkeys and ducks, the fat, hairless Xolo puppies were a leading source of meat. They were raised in large numbers, and a famous dog market near Mexico City sold as many as 400 a week. The Spanish clergy tried to suppress this traffic, with only gradual success. For many years the Spanish, too. appreciated roast Xolo. Mexico's famed painter Diego Rivera, who owns 45 hairless dogs, says he has eaten them and found them delicious...
...harsh course has superficial plausibility but grave disadvantages. It not only invites a blood bath in Eastern Europe but requires a return to one-man dictatorship in Russia, for it takes a Stalin to impose Stalinism. To go forward with liberalization risks the gradual dismemberment of the satellite empire. But in the end, the sins, fallacies and weaknesses of Soviet Communism may compel the Russians to take that risk, in order to save what they...
...article in The New York Times Magazine, Slichter said that the most "realistic" view of the American economy is held by the "optimistic skeptics," who feel that the gradual rise in price levels is "largely determined by influences over which men have only very incomplete control...