Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Togliatti spoke. He said: "We will never allow Italy and the Soviet proletariat to see between them a barrier such as reactionary groups have vainly attempted to construct. . . . Our Soviet comrades await from us proof of our good faith, and we must conduct with the greatest energy the fight against the Fascist bureaucracy in our ministries. . . ." The Cabinet crisis continued...
...some other ambitious "colonel," he sought support in nonmilitary quarters. As president of the National Labor Department, he appealed to the workers, flattered them, forced their employers to raise their wages, improve their working conditions. He was even solicitous of farm hands-the lowest circle of Argentina's proletariat...
With the same smooth manner that once sold vacuum cleaners at hotcake speed, Businessman Johnston heartily backslapped his way among the proletariat. Flashing his dazzling smile, he shook hands like a polished Wendell Willkie- with workers in an American-equipped ball-bearing plant, in the giant Stalin Auto Works, in an airplane-engine factory. At a press conference he talked about the booming U.S. economy, reaffirmed his belief that there need be no postwar unemployment, showed correspondents newsreels of himself in Russia...
...Hairy Ape (United Artists), as Eugene O'Neill conceived him, was a one-man proletariat, a crude yet powerful symbol. A huge, half-demented ship's stoker, he was obsessed with the proud idea that he made the ship go, and ready to beat the brains out of anyone who attempted to gainsay him. He lost his mind when a slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing...
...China) whose love for a Russian sea captain was frustrated by the machinations of an imperialistic British treaty-port commander named Sir Hips. The ballet ended with the murder of Tai Hoa by a jealous Chinese who is a tool of Sir Hips, and the rise of the Chinese proletariat to the strains of the Internationale...