Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There Shishekly too was diplomatically vague about his refugee resettlement program, and preferred to talk about land reform and reclamation. Lighting a Pall Mall, he said: "We hope the democratic countries-first of which is the U.S.-will help us. With money we can raise the standards of our people and fight bad ideas which are coming from . . ." He paused, leaving the sentence incomplete. His secretary, a young, English-speaking lieutenant, smiled and said: "You know what country the colonel means...
...Prisoners of war beheaded, buried alive or otherwise killed for "attempting to escape" or because they resisted Red "thought reform"-524 U.S. troops, 21,400 ROKs, 365,000 Chinese Nationalists, 26,940 Japanese...
Angry Shouts. The Council was founded in 1943 by a group led by Lessing J. Rosenwald, onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Almost all of its members belong to Reform congregations, and Executive Director Elmer Berger, 44, is a Reform rabbi who left his synagogue in Flint, Mich, to take the job. Some of the earliest Reform rabbis were explicitly anti-Zionist, and to Council members, the rising popularity of "Israelism" in the U.S. seemed the very thing the rabbis had protested...
...Cambridge Civic Association--non-partisan reform group--still retains its majority of five. MacNamara, like Sonnet, is an independent...
Although the mayor of Cambridge during the city's first reform years in 1941 and 1942, Sennott was always independent of the Cambridge Civic Association--a non-partisan reform organization...