Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Khrushchev takes this slogan to mean "working for a better life for the people within the Soviet Union, that is one thing. If on the other hand he means the victory of Communism over the U.S. and other countries, this is a horse of a different color. For we have our own ideas as to what system is best...
...Adam and Eve created a lot of trouble," replied Nixon, deadpan. "Oh," protested a member of the crowd, "they created the world." "That," smiled Nixon, "is what I mean...
...tung's rural communes, Khrushchev recalled that soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, some Soviet leaders had also decided that the way to achieve true Communism was by herding the peasantry into communes. "Well, they organized communes," he said. "But neither the material nor political conditions for it-I mean the consciousness of the peasant masses-then existed. A situation arose in which everyone wanted to live well but to contribute a minimum of labor to the common cause." China, in other words, would soon learn, as Russia did, that communes offer too much scope for goldbricking...
...Yukon and Northwest Territories - covers an area of 1,500,000sq. mi., nearly half as big as the U.S. Geographers define the Arctic as the land north of the tree line-roughly the climatic boundary where the July temperature averages no more than 50°. But the January mean in Whitehorse is 8° warmer than Winnipeg's, 750 miles to the south; Fort Smith's all-time high of 103° is 1° higher than New Orleans'. The annual snowfall at Resolute (latitude 75° N.) is less than Boston's. The summers...
...Victor Butterfield. In his new book, Academic Procession (Columbia; $4), President-emeritus Wriston, now head of Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum" comes from the Latin word for racecourse does not mean that just any foolish subject should be entered as an added starter, says Wriston, citing universities that field a whole hodgepodge of courses...