Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvest. By the time Khrushchev announced his new agricultural program last month, Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's...
But last week, when Pietro Nenni rose to speak at his party's biennial congress in Naples, Fanfani's dreams and the right-wingers' fears became academic. Weaving and bobbing around the microphone, Nenni shouted: "This government has almost been brought to the ground, which is already...
Even as with crowned kings, De Valera had his griefs. Above all, he had failed to achieve the two goals closest to his heart: the unity of Ireland and the revival of Gaelic as the national tongue. But nobody thought for a minute that he would now fail to get...
The Fickle Ones. In the Assembly, the opposition was not large, but it was noisy. Male delegates talked interminably about the value of tradition. Just when Mme. Ngo thought she had won them over in committee, they would wriggle free. "Really," complained Mme. Ngo, "men change their minds much more...
In his new position Mason also faces a tough job; he will have to try to push through the President's new housing program over heavy congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove...