Word: politicization
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When the weekly New Mexican was founded in 1849 in Santa Fe, at the southwest end of the Santa Fe trail, the editors decided it was politic to pick as few quarrels as possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the...
During the past year, Withrop has emerged as a strong force in the politic- ian-breeding field, supplying two out of three Class of 1949 marchals and four out of ten permanent committeemen. Its more internationally-minded members have entertained visiting firemen in quantity from Amsterdam and other faraway places...
One of Stalin's first assignments from Lenin was to weld together the bickering nationalities of the Caucasus, and it was then that Mikoyan became his henchman. In this stubborn problem, Mikoyan demonstrated that he could be politic, patient, persuasive and in a pinch-like all Bolsheviks-utterly merciless...
Historian Gibbon, says Toynbee, was not the only eminent scholar to view Christianity as a menace to civilization. Anthropologist Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) regretted that the "unselfish ideal" of Greek and Roman society, which subordinated the individual to the welfare of the state, was superseded by the "selfish...
This sounded like a slightly more politic parroting of Senator Bob Taft. Did the President, like Taft, mean "eat less"? asked one reporter. No, said the President firmly, he meant to waste less. One restaurant owner had informed him that one slice of bread less per person would solve the...