Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, breaking away from the droning Congress speeches to tour a Budapest engineering works, he told factory hands: "Czar Nicholas did not hesitate to send troops to put down the Hungarian revolution of 1848 . . . How could we, the working people of the Soviet Union, suffer our troops to look on...
Crowds enviously studied the windows of Moscow's new Mosodezhda men's wear store last week, eying the fancy suits, coats, smokingi and fraki (tails). But inside, clerks told disappointed shoppers that these were "future" models. All they had for sale was the familiar old line of $80...
"I shall insist on discipline with a capital D," declared Wijayananda Dahanayake when he became Prime Minister of Ceylon after the assassination of his predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of...
Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the...
* Even Harry Truman got into the act, with a judgment that Fidel Castro "would be all right if he had a haircut and decent clothes."