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...cattle, threatening the entire economic life of the country. It was Stalin's biggest, and perhaps only, political defeat. After millions had been starved and shot, he softened the program. Even today the peasants maintain a hold on the country's economy. There never have been enough staunch Communists to create party cells in all of Russia's scores of thousands of small villages. Many "collectivized" villages are in fact tight family communities, loyal to their family interests. Hence Stalin's effort in 1949 to amalgamate the villages into large, well-policed agricultural towns, called agrogoroda...
...light bulb, a reporter talked with a South Korean newspaperman who had planned originally to defect to the Communists, but who at the last minute had changed his mind. Critical of Rhee, protesting that the old man's stubbornness has cost his nation dearly, he, nevertheless, is a staunch Rhee supporter on the straightforward ground that Rhee is the strongest political force in Korea today...
...dealt with the issue to any extent. In the past it has not been raised. It may now have to be. I am well aware that anyone who speaks of anything unconstitutional before the Supreme Court has spoken is treading uncertain ground. But the Supreme Court has been very staunch in its defense of religious freedom; it has tended to take a broad view of its meaning and significance. I hope that if the issue arises, it will recognize the relation between religious and academic freedom. The common ground is respect for conviction, based upon faith and honest intellectual labor...
...What is good for General Motors is good for the country." Not knowing Charles Wilson's ideas concerning his moral philosophy, but hearing it said . . . that he is a man of unquestioned integrity and honesty, such a statement as accredited to him suggests strongly that he is a staunch utilitarian...
...good-looking bachelor with craggy features and a voice like the Great Gilder-sleeve, Miles is a model extrovert. His personality and opinions are as open to public consumption as his sherry bottle. He is a staunch partisan of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Democratic Party, slipping the first into his Gov. 1 sections, and defending the second against all comers in the dining hall. He is a keen critic of clothes, even unto distinguishing between products of the second and third floor of Brooks Brothers...