Word: leftishness
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...Hate Communism, But . . ." Nothing in the diaries so far shows that Ickes was a great man. They help bear out his reputation for personal honesty, his enormous capacity for work, his dogged loyalty to old-fashioned leftish principles. He was candid enough to say of other New Deal liberals in general: "There personally was more comfort in going along with a bunch of reactionaries who knew where they were and where they were going than in trying to get along with a bunch of prima donnas...
...military-government bureaucrats stationed there. For a little while-as the big businessman blabbers influentially in the press club and blubbers helplessly under the withering word-fire of an intelligence officer (Gregory Peck) who dares to use his intelligence-the picture is strongly reminiscent of a leftish political cartoon from the '30s in which a hog in striped pants is served up with an apple in his mouth...
...London and renounced her U.S. citizen ship. Thus, like her London-born husband who from his classic film roles piled up an estimated $20 million during 42 years as an alien resident of the U.S., Oona became a British subject. Chaplin, who faces a Justice Department grilling on leftish and immorality charges if he ever tries to re-enter the U.S., was "proud" of Oona's new status...
...them was Francisco Fernandez, boss of the majority party in Congress, the Revolutionary Action Party (PAR), which elected President Jacobo Arbenz. PAR is moderately leftish, and "Paco" Fernandez is supposed to be no worse than a dilettantish fellow traveler...
Last week the opposition parties were seized with a sudden confidence that if the ballot were truly secret, as the government promised, they had a chance. Leftish U.R.D. called for a rally, and the crowd that came was the biggest in Caracas' history. The party's highly nationalistic platform, directed against foreign oil interests, demanded higher taxes on oil, nationalization of the sales of gasoline, and the construction of refineries in the country...