Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight the people's Republics of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and at the same continue with her Vietnamese dilly-dally? Uganda will not simply scream like North Vietnam and watch its villages in flames. Not only does Uganda have friends eleswhere, but there is too much at stake. After the Congo is freed from this belated second-hand colonialism, then more African countries will be liberated...
...tens of thousands, steelworkers last week voted in one of the highest-stake elections in U.S. trade union history. Challenged was David John McDonald, 62, president since 1952 of the million-member United Steelworkers of America. Challenging was Steel-worker Secretary Treasurer I. W. (for lorwith Wilbur) Abel, 56, who for the past dozen years has worked only a few paces down the hall from McDonald in the union's Pittsburgh headquarters, sharing confidences, negotiating chores and administrative responsibilities...
...pervades the young, dynamic segment of the profession that many significant reforms should come within the next five or ten years. While many teachers are willing to criticize the system, some balk at efforts to effect concrete change. As one reader put it, they have too much of a stake in the old ways, in preserving the practices which make a teacher's job in some ways one of the least demanding in India today...
Russia itself has lagged behind the satellites in the economic shift toward Western ways. At stake is nothing less than Russia's vast "command economy," with its Kafkaesque, topheavy bureaucratic fiefdoms regulating every pulse and throb of the nation's economic engine. And though Marx never mentioned central planning and Lenin came to it only late in life, such is Stalin's historical shadow that at stake, too, are a generation of ideological maxims boastfully vaunting the superiority of Socialist planning over capitalism, the pervasive power-and perhaps the jobs -of some 10 million planners large...
...cumulative effect is massive, finally unforgettable. The death of Joan is a nearly wordless sequence that provides a definitive lesson in economy of style, for it shows little, says all. The Maid's bare feet are seen padding over cobbles. Someone in the crowd trips her. At the stake there is a split second of hesitation: then she is chained, the faggots are lit, and her meager belongings are fed to the fire. "Holy Jesus!" calls Joan, and extinction comes as two priests lift a great cross into the thickening smoke, then quickly draw back from a wall...