Word: nation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marxist heresies that Gomulka has not stamped out in his campaign to restore Communist authority in Poland is official tolerance of private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...
...inviting is the prospect of a Europe economically united that still another nation was anxious to join the Outer Seven. But little Finland has to be mindful of what Big Neighbor Russia thinks. Predictably, Pravda grumbled last week that 'Finland should watch out for entangling political alliances. Wise in the ways of Soviet nuance and tone, the Finns decided that the Russians were only growling, not really mad. Accordingly > the Finns promised the Soviets to wait until the final wording of the agreement before joining, but meantime agreed to join the Outer Seven in drawing up the final draft...
...question of motive became important. As the years passed, 15 books, including one by Allen Dulles (then in charge of U.S. espionage against Germany), were written to show that to an unsuspected extent, the plot was a sincere and patriotic attempt to save the honor of a nation. Postwar German courts absolved the plotters of treason, and each July 20, German newspapers have published eulogies of the conspirators. But the old argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else...
...crammed on the other side; stained, plastic-topped tables and rachitic chairs crowd the floor. The capacity, when everyone is inhaling, comes close to 200, and strangely, the crowd is always close to capacity. This week the Black Hawk is edging into its tenth year as one of the nation's top resorts for modern jazz, the club that launched such cool cats as Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan. Says CoOwner Guido Caccienti: "I've struggled for years to keep this place a sewer...
...quarter of 1959, the U.S. economy will pass a long-awaited milestone far ahead of schedule. Americans by then will be producing, earning, spending and investing at the rate of $500 billion yearly, raising the U.S. to the level of a half-trillion-dollar economy. For each of the nation's 45 million families, the breakthrough will represent some $11,000 worth of goods and services produced by U.S. factories, farms, mines, government and service industries. The total will be many billions greater than the combined gross national products of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, West Germany and France...