Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worry over the state of the world has caused them to lean to a third party ... I say to those disturbed liberals . . . think again. Don't waste your vote. This is the hour for the liberal forces of America to unite . . . Together we can rout the forces of reaction once again...
...death set off a chain reaction, and a furious tug of war between claimants to the $16,500,000 Patterson estate. When the news reached Washington over the A.P., Times-Herald executives moved fast. The seven who had inherited the paper already faced a fight for it; Countess Felicia Gizycka, Mrs. Patterson's daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal...
When scientists are feeling a heavy sense of their social responsibility, they prefer to dust their hands of the atom bomb: its threatened misuse they regard as a purely political matter and out of their control. But science willingly accepts responsibility for another "chain reaction": the frightening, snowballing increase of the human population has been brought about by science's contribution to human health and fertility...
...managing editor of the New York Post. Then he married his boss, Dorothy Schiff Backer, and became the co-publisher and co-editor. A fortnight ago, Co-Editor Thackrey dashed off "An Appeal to Reason," complaining of his irritation and dismay "at the intemperate and increasingly violent reaction to Henry Wallace's campaign...
Most of this reaction, he thought, came from people who wanted "to bolster one of two previously determined conclusions: that [Wallace] is a dirty red or a fooler both ... It is possible," he wrote with heavy sarcasm, "to oppose Mr. Wallace's candidacy on sincere and reasoned grounds: believers in the theory that the boom and bust cycle is inevitable . '. . those who prefer sovereignty enforced by military means at home and abroad...