Word: middleway
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...sitting on the bunk. He came at me ... Each time he came, I struck at him. He grabbed me by the wrists, then he was behind me. I put my feet against the bunk to place my weight against him. I hit him over my right shoulder. He fell middleway on the bunk forward, his head facing the wall, his knees on the floor...
...struggle between all-out proponents of federally financed health care for the aged and all-out opponents of any Government involvement, a third force emerged last week and offered a comprehensive middleway plan. Meeting in Chicago, the American Hospital Association and the Blue Cross Association voted to support a new, nonprofit plan to be available to all Americans over 65. Subscribers would pay all or part of their premiums ($10 to $12 a month) in proportion to their incomes, and the Federal Government would pay part or all of the premiums for low-income oldsters...
Land reform in Italy is a desperate human need and an almost insuperable problem. The Communists propose their usual Draconian solution: confiscate and redistribute large estates, eventually collectivize. The middleway Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi rejects revolution for evolution...
With tact, firmness, sympathy and inexhaustible good humor, he had prodded and pushed France's middleway government toward a balanced budget. He was urging more efficient tax collecting, more efficient production techniques. His staff had calculated that a rationalization of methods could increase output by 10% to 15% without longer working hours or new equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France...
Fortunately the structure for an altered policy already exists. Both the European Recovery Program and the Brussels Pact will serve well if administered under the reoriented recognition that non-Communist leftist leaders have something to offer their respective nations, a middleway alternative capable of competing successfully with Communist parties and thus of stopping the Russian dominance of Europe that Communists victories inherently involve...