Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolsheviks and appealing for the unity that all Russia desperately wanted. The response was bloodthirsty. "Bullets are the only way!" screamed the Bolsheviks. In answer to Chernov, Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin strode to the platform to cry, "We demand a dictatorship of the toiling classes!" and, "From this platform we proclaim a war to the death on the bourgeois-parliamentary republic...
EVEN before Sputnik, Soviet scientists were freely predicting successful space flights to the moon by the early 1960s. Since the launching of their satellite, the timetable has been confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7...
Stripped of its complex algebraic formulas, Parkinson's Law is this: the staff of any administrative department increases annually by 5%-6% "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done." Not one to proclaim dogma without data, Author Parkinson presents the strange case of the British Admiralty. Between 1914 and 1928, the capital ships of the British navy declined from 62 to 20, the officers and men of the fleet dropped from 146,000 to 100,000, yet Admiralty officials increased nearly 80% from 2,000 to 3,569. So absolute...
...Heliodorus himself almost nothing is known except that he was a Hellenized Phoenician who, thinks Translator Hadas, may have had an admixture of Negro blood. There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians. Today, nearly 1,700 years after his death, both messages have relevance, but the Ethiopica will mostly be read now, as it always has been, as a rattling good adventure story...
...diplomatic visit by an Iraqi Premier (Ali Jawdat, the summer replacement of Strongman Nuri asSaid) since 1949. The most elaborate gesture of all was the visit to Syria by Saudi Arabia's King Saud, who broke off his European tour and left the waters of Baden-Baden to proclaim his Arab solidarity with Syria...