Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provide respite from the discords of twenty years of turbulent social change. As a self-styled political amateur, Eisenhower has tried to appear above the lively give-and-take that characterized relations with Congress during the Administrations of his two predecessors. By this abstinence, he has managed to retain much of his popularity with the "independent," who typically claims revulsion at the grubby business of competing for power...
...still feel that Eisenhower is only a front for his Vice-President, or "heir apparent" as he terms him, now his addresses recognize that he has not convinced the country of this, and that while he continues to score Nixon, he must also attack Eisenhower if he is to retain any hope of victory...
Though the country is only one-fourth arable, increasing farm efficiency and mechanization have made it self-sufficient in dairy products, sugar, potatoes and most meats; nearly self-sufficient in rye, barley, oats, fruits and vegetables. The capital has been rebuilt with new buildings constructed along baroque lines to retain the city's distinctive flavor. An enormous six-story, block-square office building is rising in Vienna, and more than 300,000 new apartments have been put up, more than replacing the 200,000 destroyed in the fierce World War II fighting. Building has boomed so fast, in fact...
...Patriot King; he can even make a kind of If-I-Were-King of Magnus. The Socialist Bernard can act a Strong Man on the throne, a Passionless Shepherd in the boudoir. The disbeliever in monarchy can suggest that a constitutional monarch be flagrantly unconstitutional, and can have him retain his throne by threatening to abdicate and prove ten times as troublesome in Parliament...
...Young men, on the other hand, who enter the field of higher learning lead a somewhat anomalous existence. They achieve the physical stature of men but retain the status of schoolboys. The college student, although scarcely any longer all adolescent, is still engaged in the difficult, sometimes turbulent, passage from youth to maturity...