Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted that much French communistic ballot strength comes from local unrest and discontent, and does not represent approval of Russia's international ambitions so much as a desire for reform...
...late Huey, nephew of Governor Earl and the youngest member (32) of the U.S. Senate, sent word to the homefolks: he would support Congressman Hale Boggs in the 1952 race for governor. Boggs, who is young himself (37), won his Congress seat in 1946 on an anti-Long reform ticket. It was one more sign that Russell Long was determined not to be a chip off the old block. Senators familiar with Huey's demagogic ways are impressed by Russell's dogged and unflamboyant performance as a Senator and his hankering for respectability. Russell, though he still reveres...
...told one story of a rascally old warlord who gave his favorites land belonging to others, slyly called it the first "land reform" movement. His listeners grinned delightedly. After a few more such stories, Kan mysteriously disappeared...
...calculating type, with an icy "What's-in-it-for-me?" attitude to everything. But his second marriage (to ex-Cotton Club Chorine Edna Mae) and a growing sense of his new stature as a world champion soon began to smooth off some of the rough edges. The reform of Sugar Ray Robinson reached some sort of climax when he phoned Walter Winchell a year ago and offered to give the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund his cut of the gate in the championship fight with Charley Fusari...
Oxford University's Independent Member Alan Patrick Herbert turned the trick in 1935. With his back-bench seat scarcely two days warm, he bounced up brandishing a bill "to reform the indecent, hypocritical, cruel, and unjust marriage laws of this country." Said Herbert heatedly: "I swear it shall be passed before this Parliament is over...