Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several months ago, in the hope of renewing Russo-Chinese dialogue, heard the most vitriolic denunciation of Premier Khrushchev, whom the Chinese blame personally for reneging on the large aid-and-trade agreement that followed Stalin's death. The Rumanians had to insist that Khrushchev is but a responsive politician, attuned to the desires of of a people who, after 45 years of paying for their own industrialization, the War, and then the arms race, are unwilling to make another vast outlay at the expense of their own comfort and prosperity...
...more a soldier's command than a politician's plea. And even Ultima Hora, the country's strident leftist paper, sounded a note of optimism: "If his words were not empty, if the man who pronounced them is really aware of his responsibility before history, there is hope...
...said. Despite this, many persons "evidently believe that deep in my heart I do desire the nomination and that I am only waiting until the right moment to make my move. This is not true. But it seems to be part of our American folklore to believe that every politician wants to be President...
...were secretly, and a bit shamefacedly, still treating their patients. Doctors in Brussels began telephoning their patients to say they were back on the job -but please keep it quiet. The strikebreakers were not beyond exercising a little lighthearted blackmail: one dental surgeon replaced a broken bridge for a politician on the condition that he would not use his newly recovered power of speech to lobby against the strike. In Ghent's Refuge Ste. Marie, a surgeon asked for police protection to complete a series of four operations. His striking colleagues protested that the surgery could wait-and threatened...
...another giant step in the plan to make the American citizen subservient to a regime. The "war on poverty" is obviously a vote-influencing scheme, another duplication of effort, another billion dollars for scattershot, another bureau to enlarge the federal payroll, another gimmick by a glib and slick-tongued politician. The chief cause of poverty is inflation, and after nearly three decades of "spending to create prosperity," inflationary policies are still predominant...