Word: sim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...install new leaders. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, drafted by Marquis de Lafayette, proclaimed that "the principle of sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation: no body of men, no individual, can exercise authority that does not emanate expressly from it." It was this inspiration that motivated Simón Bolivar and José de San Martin in freeing the states of South America from the dead hand of colonial Spain, forged modern Germany out of a score of principalities, unified fragmented Italy with Cavour's leadership. Under this glorious banner, Irishmen and Poles and Czechs fought...
Professor Scott Elledge ruthlessly ripped apart the teachers' compositions-the first creative writing for some of them since adolescence. "Full of hazy thought," he snapped. "This kind of rhetoric we don't need-it's unliterary." The teachers, who tend to see correcting essays as sim ple proofreading rather than criticism of meaning, giggled nervously, or sat in stunned embarrassment...
Died. Henry McBride, 94, twinkly, oracular art critic for the old New York Sim and the magazines Dial and Art News, a Pennsylvania Quaker who started out illustrating seed catalogues and wound up as one of the U.S.'s most influential promoters of modern art, and the intimate of such Parisian cognoscenti as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso; in The Bronx...
...government has been working rapidly, desperately, to give itself a new look in the eyes of the world. Political arrests have all but ended, the top cops have been fired, and even the initials of the dread secret police have been changed from SIM to, of all things, C.I.A.-Central Information Agency. Balaguer warned that "violence and destruction will be severely punished," but pledged that the brand-new rights of the opposition to hold political rallies would not be taken away...
Stalin, the apparent international loser, showed the greatest enterprise; his agents were able to develop the techniques, so useful later in eastern Europe, by which a Communist minority can influence and finally take over a popular wartime regime. Also, he trained in the NKVD or the Spanish SIM, a corps of future Red quislings-Togliatti. Ulbricht, Malinovsky, Tito. Without endorsing Franco, many readers will draw the hard conclusion from Historian Thomas' documents that if the Madrid-Barcelona republic had beaten Franco, it would have been as a Communist or "people's" republic...