Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whisked ashore and shipped off to Brazil. As O'Brien departed amid general sighs of relief, the Hong Kong police revealed that he was no Irishman at all, but a Hungarian named Istvan Ragan, whose youth had been passed largely in U.S. jails and reform schools, whose manhood was spent mostly in Shanghai's Blood Alley, where procuring, white slavery and dope peddling is the way of life...
...city that always sports the latest and shiniest in automobiles, literary movements and ballpoint pens, where perfectly good buildings are torn down every year to make way for newer and better ones. Only its politics have stopped moving. Politically, New York is a kind of petrified forest, where reform candidates roam in solidly institutionalized groups, and the stumps of once-great political growths clutter the landscape...
...Ruling Twelve of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), for Naguib, its elder counselor and front man, for 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, its spark and driving power, it had been a good year. King Farouk, the monarchy, the political parties and the corruption had gone. Land reform was coming, confused but coming. Crops were good, and cotton exports were up one-third over last year. But the green young army officers of the RCC had no easy solution for Egypt's basic problem: overpopulation. Egypt's people, by doubling their number in the past...
...security of the whole of the Middle East and endangering the interests of the free world. In no way was this propaganda true, as Egypt is anxious to settle the problem of the Suez Canal in order to be able to concentrate all efforts on carrying out her reform projects...
...Reform at a Price. In the first few decades of U.S. history, Cabinet officers hired their staffs without restriction, took credit or blame for the results. With the rise of political parties and patronage officials began to distribute jobs with an eye more to party spoils than to the nation's business...