Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zapotocky's history was the standard success story of the Communist who works in the shadows, waiting for his moment. In the days of the Habsburgs he was a stonecutter and a Social Democrat. When, after World War I, Lenin changed the name of Russian Bolshevism from Social Democracy to Communism, Zapotocky changed his label too. He became one of the first Communist deputies in free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed...
What U.N. thought it wanted was less emphasis on "sensational" Big Power collisions and "more emphasis placed on information work on 1) constructive economic, social and humanitarian achievements of the U.N. and related agencies; and 2) public clarification of the functions and limitations of the U.N. under the charter...
...Calhoun took a rat census of several adjoining blocks in Baltimore, and trapped and marked many of the native-son rats. Then he released 112 marked alien rats in the center of the middle block. At once there was social strife. Both native rats and aliens scurried around wildly, invading backyards where none had been seen before. Dogs and humans joined the fray. In the first 18 days there were 31 rat casualties...
...long-established rat community, says Dr. Calhoun, there is very little fighting. Every rat, having tested its strength against its neighbors, knows its social position and stays in it. Newcomers must battle for places in this set order. But since (like human immigrants) they do not know the new country, they are at a disadvantage. When danger threatens, they do not know where to hide. The newcomers do not know the best sources of food, and therefore lose weight and strength...
...native sons, familiar with local conditions, win most of the battles for position in the social order. They force the D.P.s in the rat colony to accept the least desirable territories, where they lead a marginal existence, exposed to hunger and enemies...