Word: peaceniks
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...Prize.* The award did not stay the critics. Norway's conservative Morgenbladet called it a "slap in the face" to such responsible test ban proponents as Macmillan and Kennedy. The New York Herald Tribune held that the prize's esteem had slipped through association with "a placarding peacenik." As for Pauling, who got the news at his Big Sur, Calif., retreat, he remembered that the test ban had that morning gone into effect. "I thought," said he quietly, "that it was a nice day for the committee to make the announcement...
...play ignores America, word that crops up in the dialogue only as an antonym for Russia). A young freedom fighter, who calls himself" just a rebel, filled with hate," flies to Britain where is the Prime Minister, holds a small seance with be P.M.'s wife and peacenik son in a secluded corner of the London Zoo, reconciles the son to the father, gives the father a "new purpose and a new statesmanship," and then flies back home to do the same thing of the Chief Marshal of Hungary and His son. All this action takes place within then space...
Unfortunately, too, the Hughes campaign has established a sort of Peacenik level of purity: to talk of disengagement or paramilitary initiatives shows more intellectual integrity (and respect for the voters' intelligence) than to talk of the arms economy in bread-and-butter terms...