Word: leftward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bobo quickly proved that he is one of the best dancing masters of the modern ring. Circling in a leftward two-step to avoid Paddy Young's sharp left hook, feinting, bobbing and weaving, he made Paddy miss more often than he hit. Meanwhile, from Bobo's own rights and lefts came a tattoo of light, flicking jabs, hooks, crosses, counters and slaps...
Answered the council's chairman, Dean Liston Pope of the Yale Divinity School: "The council is vigorously anti-Communist and anti-Marxist." This seemed true, though the council's outlook has run considerably leftward of the average Congregationalist. But it was only a glancing rebuttal. What roused the laymen's committee most was the fear that the Council for Social Action is subjecting Congregationalists to a centralized program of policymaking that contradicts the historic individualism of their church...
...government machine. But such diverse groups as university students, Indian market women, landowners and small businessmen have been increasingly mortified at their country's Red-splashed reputation. These anti-Communist groups, uniting to vote for Lizarralde, handed the government the first significant ballot-box rejection of its leftward trend since 1948. "In the capital, even the cobblestones are anti-Communist," explained Lizarralde. "I consider my victory a great triumph for democracy...
During the past year, the leftward tilt of the balance has halted, in a change so subtle that people of the Western world might overlook it. But the signs are there: three former enemies of Russia-Japan, West Germany (including the vital Ruhr) and Italy-are now in the Western camp; a NATO army is forming; the gigantic U.S. industrial potential, to which Stalin paid respectful tribute in World War II, is beginning to Stir...
Like many another smart young man who followed the Communist line, sharp-eyed, sharply dressed Attorney Lee Pressman did very well for a long time. Har-vardman Pressman launched his leftward-turning 'career in Henry Wallace's AAA back in 1933, ended up as chief counsel of the C.I.O. He held the post for twelve years. But though he was a skilled labor lawyer, his fellow-traveling finally became too much for Phil Murray; 2½ years ago Murray tearfully threw...