Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the government of Gabon spent nearly $1 billion for halls, hotels and new highways to nowhere, this year's session in Khartoum would be summitry on a $12 million shoestring. A few old streets had been resurfaced, and sessions would be held in Friendship Hall, a rather proletarian-looking convention center built two years ago by the Chinese. Despite the relative austerity. Sudanese President Gaafar Numeiri, the summit host and incoming OAU president, suggested in personal letters of invitation to each of his fellow 48 African leaders that this was a meeting they would not want to miss...
...billion since 1954. According to the official Chinese news agency, Peking had been showering grain, steel, tractors and trucks on the ungrateful Albanians when China could not spare them. "The Chinese people scrimped on food and clothing and tried their best to aid Albania in the spirit of proletarian internationalism," the agency complained...
...EXECUTION OF MAYOR YIN AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION...
...general election), while the Communists took only 26.5% (down from 34%). Recouping their losses of two years ago, the Socialists came in with a respectable 13.5%. The centrist Republicans and Social Democrats also gained, while the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement and the far left Proletarian Democrats lost heavily...
...acronym F.I.S.T. stands for the Federation of Interstate Truckers, a fictional labor union that only a newly arrived Martian could misunderstand as inspired by anything but the Teamsters. The movie "F.I.S.T." stands for nearly 2½ hours of almost unmitigated boredom-a misfired would-be proletarian epic with Sylvester Stallone misplaying the Jimmy Hoffa part with a self-confidence that borders on the sublime...