Word: ism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are only a few of the manifestations of a U.S. phenomenon: the resurgence of ultraconservative antiCommunism. Hundreds of groups and subgroups-with such names as Project Alert, Americans for Constitutional Action, Survival U.S.A. and Crusade for American ism-have popped up across the U.S., in some cases springing from nothing to several thousand members almost overnight. More than 100 anti-Communist study groups are being conducted in Dallas alone. Because their membership is sometimes secret and usually heavily interchangeable with other groups, no sure estimate of their strength is possible...
...McCann was finally reunited with her husband in the Tientsin Red Cross hospital. For ten days she stayed on, drafting appeals for his release. Finally she was informed that the High People's Court of Hopeh province had granted her request "in the spirit of humanitarian-ism." The Air Force made a plane available to fly McCann back to the U.S. But doctors told his wife that he was dying of lung cancer, gave the old China hand only "a few months" to live...
...terrorists in the cities, Moslem city dwellers have practiced attentisme, a zombielike acceptance of every indignity just to stay alive. The advocates of a French Algeria argued that the casbah really wanted association with France but was intimidated into silence for fear of the F.L.N. Attentisme (wait-and-see-ism) virtually disappeared last week in the explosive espousal of the F.L.N. The extremist Front de l'Algérie Française had claimed the support of 500,000 Moslems-if they ever existed, they have now vanished into thin air. The wife of extremist General Jacques Massu operated...
...until 90 out of 99 members ofParliament, including Salam, had signed a resolution "appealing to your patriot ism to save the country at this delicate hour" did Chehab let a delegation...
...Machiavelli had argued that statecraft was a matter of the basest self-interest, devoid of moral principle. Modern man has seen Einstein throw a curve into the cosmos, Freud lift the lid on the cauldron of the unconscious, and Marx upturn continents with the doctrine of dialectical material ism in which the end justifies the means...