Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stalin himself had to establish his rule during years of bloody struggle and, in a sense, the struggle never ended; the latest major Soviet purge took place only a few months before he died. Masters who rule a people by fear are doomed to fear themselves. In this respect, Stalin's regime was never secure, nor can Malenkov...
...Malenkov has at his disposal an apparatus of tyranny beyond anything known in the past. Julius Caesar, who went to the Senate unarmed on the Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly tried to legitimize his rule with a papal anointing and a blue-blooded wife, suffered military disaster of a kind that has not yet befallen Soviet Russia. Russia's own Peter the Great, who sent his only son to death for disagreeing with his reforms and failed to pick another...
...MacCarmunists do not approve of anyone who in the past has done some talking or thinking, who has had some pity, and who has had some guts. In this respect, as in all others, they operate exactly as their brothers in the Kremlin...
...know. The reporter looked up, startled, and Furry explained "Well, you know, you're sitting at home and some one calls up and asks you to join an organization. You ask what it's going to do and who's on it, and the person names some people you respect and, especially if it's a female voice, you say sure and send them five dollars." The reporter looked startled again...
...fact that there was a semblance of order at all-in finance or in government-was still something of a miracle. It was due, in almost every respect, to a remarkable old man: President Syngman Rhee, 78, stern fighter for Korea's freedom over more than half a century...