Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British planners illustrate the point this way. In any effective European federation, tariff barriers would come down. That might mean, under a free economy, that some inefficient Lancashire textile plant would close down while production would be expanded in a Lyon factory, better situated for general European trade. In a planned economy (which Britain's Socialist government considers indispensable to Western Union), the Lancashire-Lyon shift would be the subject of a formal government decision. It would come up for discussion in the kind of assembly the French want (say the British), and it would stir up nationalist resentment...
...Communist Party on the ninth floor, just above the city room. But staffers are not encouraged to visit the party's offices. Anyone who does is watched with suspicion by his comrades, even Worker editors. There is a reason: a visit to the ninth floor can mean that the visitor has caught a staffer in "capitalist error" and is informing...
...mean the Communists in this country take their orders from Stalin...
...federal aid. They decided in favor of asking-by endorsing a system of federal scholarships for college students. Such a plan would be in line with the $120 million proposal made by the President's Commission on Higher Education. But that didn't mean that the educators liked everything the commission had said. They had not completely forgotten the "higher standards" Kenneth Brown had spoken of; nor were they in favor of blindly distributing scholarships without a stiff examination of each candidate's intellectual merits and financial needs. Furthermore, warned the presidents: "The association sees...
When Hidalgo is murdered, Harmon issues a statement placing responsibility on the local government, though he knows it will mean instant dismissal from the mission. He remembers Hidalgo's words: "In bullfighting, William, they have a marvelous phrase for describing the climax of the ceremony-that ultimate moment of reality when the sword strikes the bull. 'La hora de verdad-the hour of truth.' A man must not waste away into nothing, William; a man must find his hour of truth." Having faced his hour, Harmon now feels that he can return to his family and find...