Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...viewpoint" when it accuses the U.S. of planning preventive war. "If so, one effect would be to confuse their own people and the people of the Eastern European countries under their domination." Other motives, said Ike, might be: 1) the Russians do not want to cooperate, or 2) as orthodox Communists they still believe capitalist societies are inherently warlike, or 3) their leaders are simply ignorant of U.S. life...
Your cover picture of Menderes does not show the blood of thousands of Greek Orthodox children and women (Istanbul massacre, Sept. 6, 1955). John Foster Dulles' flirtation with the corrupt country of Turkey is one of the greatest shames of today...
Though his tax program sounds like orthodox Fair Dealing, George Docking has made a political career out of being an offbeat Democrat in Republican Kansas (he regards himself as "a kind of cynic," likes to read Voltaire, Swift, Defoe). The son of a prosperous Kansas banker, Docking sold bonds for a few years after his graduation (A.B., economics) from the University of Kansas in 1925. Eventually he went into the family banking business, took over in 1942 as president of the First National Bank of Lawrence. He played his first political hand in 1952, as money-raiser for Adlai Stevenson...
...very lucky man," said Rumania's burly, egotistical Petru Groza, "a sort of modern Midas." Born wealthy, he owned huge estates, was a director of many companies, served as a minister in the archconservative Cabinets after World War I, was a deputy in the Synod of the Rumanian Orthodox Church. In 1927 came the great change; Millionaire Groza abruptly abandoned what he called the "Sodom and Gomorrah" of Rumanian politics, retired to his Transylvanian estates, led a lusty Rabelaisian life and, in his words, "learned to think dialectically." Translation: Groza, an opportunist of agility, saw Russia as a coming...
...varsity swimming team shut out an extremely weak Pennsylvania squad as the Crimson's Jim Stanley set an impressive Harvard record in the 200-yard orthodox breaststroke Saturday night at the I.A.B. pool. The Crimson took every first and second place spot to score a maximum possible number of points...