Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Echoing Gunfire. The Communists were clearly troubled by the problem of how to keep so large an outburst from getting further out of hand. An official statement attributed the revolt to "imperialist agents and a reactionary underground," charged that the rioting bore "the imprint of a large-scale and carefully prepared provocative and diversionary action." Communist Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, rushing down to Poznan, promised severe punishment for those captured with weapons. Cried Cyrankiewicz: "Everyone who raises his hand against the people may be sure that it will be hacked...
...breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow's cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as "traitor, Judas, fascist, saboteur, imperialist agent, renegade," and a hundred other names in the extensive vocabulary of Communist invective. Wearing a powder-blue military blouse loaded with gold braid and ribbons, and red-striped trousers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito stepped out of his luxury coach to the sound of Muscovite cheers and triumphal military music...
...When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously had little relish for Lennox-Boyd's views, he joined the coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain's colonial position. Mellowed and increased in wisdom by this friendship, he won Stanley's support, became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production...
Mark's Church in Evanston, Ill., Used his sermon for a preconvention broadside at the diocesan leadership. "What these people want," he cried, "is the exaltation of the clerical order, the subordination of the laity, and the regimentation of the life of the church along imperialist, monarchical or oligarchical lines. In practice . . . [they] want the clergy to run the show, although by no means a majority of the clergy want any such dubious honor...
...good old days, according to Glubb, wise rulers had the selfless help of the old order of imperialist, a breed now "extinct." "Often," writes Glubb, "the imperialist devoted his life to the amelioration of the conditions of the people committed to his charge. Under this constant care, public security was assured, roads were built, sanitation introduced, education inaugurated. But he committed one unpardonable offense-he was supercilious...