Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tightly coordinated campaign of anti-Soviet publicity and official speeches aimed at the Kremlin. The unmistakable message: there are limits to Yugoslavia's tolerance of Soviet interference. At a recent meeting of the Presidium, Party Chief Stane Dolanc denounced "Cominformists" as "traitors to our country." Another Party leader spoke balefully of "black clouds of Stalinism hovering over the horizon." The Yugoslav press has published a host of articles apparently designed to educate younger Party members about the nature of the 1948 dispute with Moscow. The past six issues of the leading weekly newsmagazine NIN, for example, have carried...
What brought about the surge? Retailers unanimously spoke of "the return of consumer confidence," but few could explain just what made shoppers so cheerful at a time of continued high unemployment and inflation. "The American public has always had a short attention span," ventured Martin Jacobs of the Lipman Wolfe & Co. department-store chain in Oregon. "They see a recession, are told to conserve, and do. But then, when things don't improve all that much, they go back to their old buying habits." Julian Seeherman, a senior vice president of Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn thinks that with...
...curious way, there is a distinct continuity between colonial America's notion of what children ought to be like and our present-day "enlightened" and "emancipated" notion. The Puritans saw evil everywhere, not excluding the minds of children. A child who obeyed his parents and spoke tactfully and courteously was a child whose behavior attested to his parents' Christian virtues. The parents had recognized sin in their boys and girls and fought it (relatively) and subdued it (mostly). By the same token, today's parents also strive hard to be found among the elect. That includes those...
...says he found his mother's body. Her neck had been nearly cut through; she had other stab wounds; three ribs and both thighs were broken. About 9:50, he made a frantic call to a friend's house, then phoned a doctor's home and spoke to the doctor's daughter-in-law for about three minutes before deciding to call a hospital. Police say that the hospital's evening supervisor called them...
...Stade also spoke this week of a general desire to escape the pressured life of Cambridge, to avoid the "hassles" and deadlines his two jobs present, to recognize that "what used to be fun" has become a little more tedious. He has, as he wrote in a letter to Mather House residents, "been feeling that I was running out of gas and simply cannot do justice to either...