Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranted against foreigners, talked of nationalizing foreign interests and demanded the ouster of U.S., French and Spanish troops from their bases in Morocco. "Independence is not liberty," he declared recently. "Our economy remains in the hands of others, our vital installations are at the disposition of foreigners, our social standards fall daily while foreign troops continue to occupy the country...
...relatively small economy, the sheer momentum of big basic projects (TransCanada gas pipeline, St. Lawrence Seaway) kept payrolls and profits at near-record levels. Unlike the U.S. Government, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Tory government found it feasible to finance antirecession measures. Tax cuts and increased social-welfare payments encouraged consumers to buy at record rates. A $350 million government mortgage-loan program pushed housing to an alltime peak (160,000 starts) and touched off subsidiary booms in a dozen supply industries. A good farm and fishery year pushed exports of wheat, cattle and salmon to high levels, kept...
...kids enjoy the present ("Jam Today"), Pat soberly urges them to act their ages. They can become "useful, happy, well-adjusted individuals," he says, if they make out a check list of "maturity" goals that he uses himself. Its divisions: Spiritual (follow the Bible, "the best, truest-the only"); Social (follow the Golden Rule, or "treat Joe the way you'd like him to treat you"); Mental ("New ideas and theories, new inventions, new concepts, new knowledge itself, come from thinkers. You might think about that for a while"); Physical ("I can remember that Daddy always smelled great after...
...University and technical-institute entrance will be determined by recommendations from the party, the Young Communist League, trade unions, and other "social organizations." In some branches of higher education students may concentrate on their studies for the first two or three years. But thereafter they must put in regular periods of work in factories, laboratories and the like. The desirability of "Communist morals" and a Marxist-Leninist outlook will be stressed at all educational levels...
Armand was as beautiful as a Greek god and as humorless as a congress of social workers. Annette loved him and tried to make a man of him, and some nights she succeeded. But humanity had to be saved, bombs had to be thrown, and Annette soon became bored. She married, in turn, a couple of impeccable British aristocrats, but she went on loving Armand-to the point of helping him to rob her own guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self...