Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than the U.S.S.R., tingled with the news of man's new scientific leap beyond the earth's atmosphere. "We wish," said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "to congratulate our fellow scientists...
...becoming a madhouse,'' said one White House staffer-but the result was to let the warm personality of Dwight Eisenhower take wider and greater effect on his influential visitors. Persons also began sending Republican Senators lists of all available patronage posts -and party morale took a quantum leap...
...with the admission of failure came a compulsive Communist need to label it a success. Red newspapers carried banner headlines crying, LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD- and LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S COMMUNES! In city after Chinese city last week, party workers were ordered into the street to beat drums and lead parades "celebrating" what were really ghastly failures. Most ominous of all were the blistering attacks on "rightist opportunists," i.e., Communist officials who had protested that the scheduled leap forward was too far and too fast. Such opportunists, said the party, "are singing the same tune...
...Leap Bomb bound Bomb frolic...
...agricultural troubles were political, how much natural. But obviously, the disaster reports were one way to prepare Red China's 650 million for food shortages this winter. The 1959 crop yields are reported sharply below normal; the usual propaganda boasts of "record harvests in China's great leap forward" are notably missing this summer, and a People's Daily editorial growls that "an inclination to avoid hardship has found breeding ground among some cadres"-leading outside experts to suspect that many farm communes are failing to meet their quotas...