Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steadily and inexorably Ho was moving left. He preferred Communists to Socialists because "they seriously considered the colonial problem." He was intrigued when Communists sought his advice. In the summer of 1922 Ho gladly attended a Congress of the French Communist Party, which expounded its thesis for "solid front" revolution across the world. Modestly, Ho advocated an alternative plan, a subtler plan, that might go down well in Indo-China. Ho believed in 1) a revolution against French colonialism in the name of nationalism and a "democratic regime," to be followed by 2) a second revolution against nationalism, to achieve...
...solid political organization. Ho Chi Minh has destroyed the Viet Minh's Nationalist elements, and he is unquestioned master of the Viet Minh Politburo...
...nature of the influence is a mystery. Last week at a Manhattan meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Professor Arthur W. Pollister of Columbia University showed electron microscope pictures of a frog's egg cell. Magnified 24,000 diameters, the membrane of the nucleus looks solid, but poking through it are rod-shaped objects. Dr. Pollister suspects that they are chemical memos ordering the egg to develop into a tadpole rather than into a mouse or a whale...
...Hull who has been ill, said, "I'm very happy my doctors are letting me attend the ceremony and receive my citation in person." Before her recent illness she starred in the Broadway play, "The Solid Gold Cadillac...
...usually junks its most important work under reams of verbiage, making constructive action almost impossible. For with each nation measuring all proposals with its own political yardstick, agreement has run second best to propaganda. Unlike the Security Council, however, the smaller, more specialized United Nations commissions have turned out solid achievement through negotiation. Among such groups is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which, because of the non-political nature of its delegates, has reached broad agreement on many projects. Typical of its accomplishments is the new European Organization for Nuclear Research, to be completed next year, which...