Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every nation has thousands of people with more or less hidden sadistic instincts. They are eagerly used by various dictators (Hitler's Gestapo, Stalin's NKVD, the Shah's SAVAK, Pinochet's DINA, etc.) and carry out their new duties with sadistic pleasure. Some of them may happen to be M.D.s...
...Greek Orthodox archbishop?gathered in groups in Washington. Marine helicopters ferried them to the mountaintop presidential retreat at Camp David. There Jimmy Carter, outfitted sometimes in blue jeans, at other times in snappy sport coats, pressed them for their ideas about energy, the economy, his own Administration, the national mood?and himself. Toward week's end, while aides were drafting the Sunday-night TV speech that he hoped would rally the nation, the President lent confusion to the proceedings by twice vanishing from his mountain by helicopter to confer with ordinary citizens. Thursday night he descended on the Carnegie...
These were stores which sold things like love beads and candles and dayglo posters, and of them all, only The Truc stands erect. Legend and lore tells us these small businesses were merchandisers of "the movement," run by classy entrepeneurs who saw a gold mine in the nation's dissident youth...
...reduced the country to a small republic. A political standoff between Roman Catholic right and Socialist left hobbled the new democracy, bringing it several times to violence. Then the Great Depression hit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, more than 300,000 Austrians were unemployed in a nation of only 6 million. For a time, a doughty little home-grown dictator named Engelbert Dollfuss opposed Hitler, but he was assassinated by Nazis in 1934. When Anschluss finally came in 1938, the tired Austrians seemed ready to accept the Nazi embrace...
...principal cause of this cultural drought is a severe deprivation of funds. Boston's performing groups, like the nation's, continue to proliferate at a time when public and foundation grants are drying up. In Massachusetts last year, close to 350 recipients got a share of the state art council's $2.5 million budget, with the highest gift, a mere $45,000, going to the B.S.O. This year there are 264 requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget...