Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have yet to get a full text) shows that if Mao is in fact bidding for "ideological equality" with Moscow, he will have eager supporters in the satellites, whose leaders are anxious to see "many roads to Socialism" encouraged in preference to the monolithic made-in-Moscow theorizing. In particular, the Poles have what the U.S. State Department jestingly calls a "China Lobby," eager to propagate and if necessary exaggerate China's influence on them...
...power, has grown fat and arrogant in office. The remedy, he announced sternly, was for bureaucrats to stop ignoring his year-old slogan, "Let all flowers bloom together, let rival schools of thought contend." Bureaucrats should get out and mix with the people and heed their complaints. In particular, said a subsequent party directive, all Communist Party members should "perform physical labor regularly, to associate with the masses and eliminate offensive distinctions...
Zoli can claim the distinction of being one of the first in Italy to be anti-Mussolini. As a boy in the Romagna, short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest...
...issue was stated clearly in a recent speech to an Alumni group by Dean Bundy. "I think the average college man," he said, "works harder than we did.... I think there is a tendency also to be more nearly professional in the approach to particular extra-curricular interests. The CRIMSON is better than it used to be -- I even think our present football teams would beat yours, if we could somehow match them across the years. A similar concern for near-professional standards is evident in activities as widely different as the Hasty Pudding show and the Latin Oration...
...Graves seems convinced of Palmer's innocence of this particular crime, although there is little doubt that the doctor saw to it that his alcoholic brother drank himself quickly to death after insuring his life for a considerable sum. Palmer also got several girls in the family way, and there is good reason to suppose he doped race horses, robbed some of his fellow sportsmen, and was generally heedless of most conventional responsibilities...