Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest bomb shell of news to rock the nation since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...
...been elected with the votes of the Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists, and the belated, reluctant support of Pre mier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats, talked grandly about "the start of my mandate." His mandate, he hinted, was that Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists should be brought into the government...
...last decade has been conspicuously aimed at the immediate situation, not the long-range contingency. Nothing shows this short-range concern better than the fact that Marshall-plan economic aid was converted into purely military aid at just the moment when the plan was finally beginning to restore pre-war levels of prosperity. So long as Russian policy was also disjointed, the United States could find considerable success in meeting each new threat as it developed. But the recent signs that the Kremlin is preparing a comprehensive long-range policy calls for an equally extensive reorientation in Washington...
Agreement about the answers is prevented because interests conflict. Not until this conflict is resolved will there be agreement. Tum demum. Most questions of educational, as domestic and foreign policy, are apt to end in some sort of compromise. This question is pre-eminently one which, in my opinion, calls for compromise based not on tradition but on the actual situation. Joshua Whatmough, Chairman, Department of Linguistics
...Onetime (pre-1940) staffer on the Communist New Masses (under the nom de guerre of Robert Forsythe) and slick-magazine writer who turned to biography (The Marx Brothers...