Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their method is clear. They have provided President Eisenhower with an opportunity to run not against Governor Stevenson, but against Premier Bulganin, feeling that the average American voter will naturally equate all those who agree about H-bombs and disagree with Eisenhower. The Soviets must realize that it is unlikely that voters will follow the reasoning of Bulganin's note to the conclusion that Eisenhower is a roadblock on the highway to peace...
...late. Khrushchev's method of meeting demands for "democratization" in lesser satellites has been to urge them to clear their programs with the cautious Tito. Delegations from the Communist Parties of Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary have checked in at Belgrade during the last two weeks. A delegation from East Germany is expected. But in Czechoslovakia, sensitive neighbor to Poland, Khrushchev decided on direct intervention. To head off a Polish-type independence move there, a 13-man Soviet delegation, led by one of Comrade Khrushchev's top aides, arrived in Prague last week to "study the life and work...
Major problem of the new technique: nobody can control the javelin's direction. Around and around it goes, and where it lands, nobody knows. No spectator is safe. Other javelineers are outraged. Said Czech Olympic Star Dana Zatopekova: "If this method is accepted, I will personally break my javelin and use it as supports for tomato plants." So far, the Olympic authorities have been too amazed to pronounce final judgment. But as of now nobody can find anything in the rules against...
Fischer's target is the National Organization for Decent Literature, headed by Msgr. Thomas Fitzgerald, director of the Chicago Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. NODL's method, according to Fischer, is to put pressure on newsdealers, booksellers and drugstores to remove from their counters all books on a blacklist, which includes work of such literary mandarins as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Dos Passes, George Orwell, Emile Zola, Arthur Koestler and Joyce Gary. "In some places-notably Detroit, Peoria and the suburbs of Boston," Fischer writes, "the organization has enlisted the local police to threaten booksellers...
Just a year ago, Birdseye returned to the U.S. after two years in Peru, with another triumph to his credit: a method of converting sugar cane wastes to paper pulp in twelve minutes v. nine hours for the old process. Though he suffered from heart trouble and had to lead a strictly regulated life for the past 20 years, he said: "Still other ventures are afoot, and the days are not long enough for me to take advantage of all the opportunities...