Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME was when the Kremlin was as inscrutable as Joseph Stalin's stony face, when analysts, trying to divine just what the latest Soviet pronouncement meant, rummaged back through 30 years of dusty files to find the significant quotation from Lenin. Now all is changed. Nikita Khrushchev, at the drop of a vodka glass, delivers himself of earthy opinions on anything from foreign affairs to women's clothes. Recent blurts...
Italian Flirtation. In Italy, distensione meant a continuing flirtation with the notion of an "opening to the left"?an alliance between Christian Democratic center parties and the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists, who still refuse to break their "unity of action" pact with the Communists. The Reds, oozing good-fellowship, as much as implied that "the spirit of Geneva" required all parties to get together. Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed are still the Communists' best asset, but according to a series of tables euphemistically described as a "plan" by Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, jobs could be found for them...
Soon after World War II began, the backroom boys of Phenix City were counting their tainted blessings at the rate of $100 million a year; they had a good thing, and they meant to keep it. When church groups organized against them, the bosses simply bought themselves a quorum of elders. When good citizens tried to fight them at the polls, the bosses bought votes at $10 a head and put in a puppet government. Members of cleanup committees were subjected to a campaign of nuisance arrests and tire slashings. Two were badly beaten up, on a downtown street...
...Dulles for help. Korea denied the Chamber's charges, offered to waive all back taxes for any foreign businessmen who left the country "as soon as possible." But for businessmen with investments to protect, that was no way out. In any case, it was doubtful that the offer meant peace on the Korean scene; the embattled businessmen were not bucking merely the whim of Korea's stubborn, proud old President Syngman Rhee. They were bucking a tide of nationalism that has swept through Asia. In much of the non-Communist East, many governments are putting pressure on employees...
Although there is an informative entry under plumbing (vodoprovod, and mostly bad, in Russia), the student will not learn why fellow traveler (poputchik) is now used only by such enemies of the people as congressional committees, or that the word progressive (progressivny) now means what fellow traveler once meant. The American scholar gets shortest shrift. What was a Browderite? The love less Lovestoneite? The sad Shachtmanite...