Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly three years, Tildy sat tight while the Communists whittled away at his Smallholders Party, reducing it from the largest in Hungary to an impotent remnant. When Nagy fled, both Tildy and Chornoky helped keep the lid on the indignation of bewildered Smallholders...
...that memorial, Adams supplied (in his Education of Henry Adams) a thoughtful epitaph for Saint-Gaudens himself. "Numbers of people came," he wrote, "for the figure seemed to have become a tourist fashion, and all wanted to know its meaning. Most took it for a portrait statue, and the remnant were vacant-minded in the absence of a personal guide. None felt what would have been a nursery instinct to a Hindu baby or a Japanese jinricksha-runner. . . . Like all great artists, Saint-Gaudens held up the mirror and no more...
...enlargement of geography departments at the Universities of Chicago, California, and Wisconsin, to mention only a few, makes Harvard's move the more anachronous. Although it is improbable that the administration will reconsider its decision, a measure must be introduced whereby some remnant of the Department may be preserved. This, too, appears doubtful, however, for there remains little enticement in the way of advanced teaching and research to Professor Whittlesey, one of the great political geographers in the country. But if it is not a feeble hope to expect him to remain in a University which has virtually abolished...
Washington insiders heard that at least half of Harry Truman's Cabinet disagreed with his speech. Republicans accused him of demagoguery and of trying to "out-deal the New Deal." The remnant of New Dealers in the palace guard called the speech "a great document." What was quite apparent was that the President had drastically changed his campaign strategy. Harry Truman, the man who privately prefers the middle of the road, had publicly swung to the left again in an effort to help Candidate Truman...
...next spring the new federation may have 2,000,000 members-as many as, or more than, the Communist remnant of the C.G.T. proper, which once (early in 1947) boasted 6,000,000 members. It was evident that Premier Schuman, who was recently photographed at a carnival gaily throwing balls, had thrown much more than that at French Communism. He had not only beaten the insurrection; he had shaken the patriotic and moderate elements of French labor out of Red control. The shrunken C.G.T. could not be a nightmare any longer; it could only be a nuisance...