Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in 1949, the president of the Hungarian court was a balding, saturnine man who directed a continuous stream of prejudice-laden questions at the accused. No Communist, Judge Vilmos Old had been an Arrow Cross (Nazi) leader up to 1945, switched his allegiance to the Red totalitarians when the Russians marched in. The Communists found him a useful tool, used him to press home distorted charges against such people as Robert Vogeler and Edgar Sanders. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week...
...score miles from its source in the snows of Colorado, the Arkansas River becomes a bruising stream, sweeping along at 8 to 10 m.p.h., and churning into turbulent white water where great rocks challenge its course. The river is a trout fisherman's paradise and a boatman's purgatory. In early June, two Germans arrived at its banks, not to fish but to scout the Arkansas for what is widely regarded as the world's longest, roughest riverboat race...
Kirk tells his story of the conservative stream with the warmth that belongs to it. Even Americans who do not agree may feel the warmth-and feel, perhaps, the wonder of conservative intuition and prophecy, speaking resonantly across the disappointing decades...
Summer Flies. Where did the conservative stream rise? Before history, when experience, as custom, prejudice, and social institution, began to pass from one generation to another. Kirk does not explore the stream's upper reaches. His subject is conservatism in the modern world, the century and a half dominated by the ideas of the French Revolution, and the infinite, infinitely various get of those ideas...
Across town at the White House gate, hundreds of picketers marched with pro-Rosenberg placards; opposing demonstrators carried signs that read "Kill the Dirty Spies." A stream of mail from every quarter of the globe flowed to the President's desk. The Red campaign to "save the Rosenbergs" may have inspired the pleas, but many of them came from non-Communist clergymen and scientists, from liberals and humanitarians, from those who thought it bad politics to let the Communists have "martyrs" for their propaganda. At the focus of pressure, Dwight Eisenhower did not flinch...