Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite apart from more oats, Western European Socialists were jubilant to think that the U.S. was not "swinging right." In France, Socialists were already telling themselves that it was "a triumph for the international third force," that it would diminish the chances of General Charles de Gaulle returning to power (see FOREIGN NEWS). British Socialists were more cautious, but they thought it meant fewer strings attached to ECA aid. Undeterred by the downfall of other prophets, one prominent Laborite gleefully predicted: "This assures a Labor victory...
...they feel about Communist sabotage of their country's economy? What did they think of the mumbling impotence of coalition governments? Their answer was an overwhelming vote for Charles de Gaulle. Almost complete returns showed that of the 269 Council seats (another 51 will be filled by overseas candidates not yet elected), 99 went to Gaullists, 50 to Radical Socialists, and 48 to Socialists. The Communists, who controlled 85 votes in the outgoing Council, got only 16. Most of the M.R.P. electors voted for De Gaulle's R.P.F...
...useful and necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church and the inn. Indeed there should not be antagonism between them, and it is foolish narrow-mindedness that makes people think a pub to be a wicked place. Its purpose is to encourage fellowship and happiness, surely two marks of the Christianity that the church aims to produce...
Tacho rammed a Chesterfield into a holder, squinted off toward the Pacific, and grinned. "Arévalo set out to bomb me last spring. Hell, I didn't even move from my house. The trouble with a stunt like that is that the plotter doesn't think it can be turned against him. Right now I'm going to buy the same A20 that Arévalo was going to use against me. I take these boys' toys away from them whenever I can." Tacho's belly shook with laughter as he flopped back into...
...hours Tacho talks with pleaders, politicians, hangers-on. If he agrees to a proposal and gives an order then & there, the proposal will be carried out. If he says he'll think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...