Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study time is taken up with Communist indoctrination, Russian language lessons, and "sport and technology," i.e., guerrilla training. At East Berlin's Humboldt University last November, as students gathered on the campus to discuss the Hungarian situation, clandestine leaflets came floating down from the rooftops. WE DEMAND MORE THOROUGH TRAINING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SOCIETY FOR SPORT AND TECHNOLOGY, proclaimed a big black headline. Underneath in small type was a tag line calculated to chill the nervous Ulbricht: Because the example of Hungary has shown us that...
Good Partnership. When President Eisenhower took office, "the wholesome concept of good neighbors" prevailed in inter-American relations. But "we foresaw a bond stronger than any yet achieved here or in any other community of world states." As a result, Eisenhower "called for a thorough study of the entire field of inter-American relations, the first integral examination ever made of our relations in the hemisphere. The man who did this job was the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who submitted an exhaustive report in November 1953. Dr. Eisenhower's recommendations on hemisphere partnership became and still...
Unfortunately the House Banking and Currency Committee voted to make into a Congressional investigation what should be a thorough study of the United States' financial system. But Congress needs an understanding of the operations and effects of our economic set-up which a Congressional committee cannot acquire. Congressmen lack time and background to cover the complex problem...
...secretary of the district Party Committee. The children say that they are afraid to sit with a girl who is in alliance with . . . the Devil . . . More and more children who do not attend religious classes are discriminated against and often beaten up . . .In some schools even Party activists and thorough atheists now send their children to religious instruction...
...excerpts from Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's prophetic novel about the sterile lives of "unpersons" in a totalitarian society. Another magazine carried a lengthy review of ex-Communist Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, hailed his savage exposition of Communist terrorism as "a very thorough analysis of Stalinist methods." Other papers have run glowing stories on the "truly democratic" U.S. and Western prosperity. The Culture Ministry's official organ recently published an article on the U.S. economy by a Communist official who noted sardonically that he "prefers imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka...