Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While State's lawyers stewed, one indignant yelp arose from an area where the shoe might pinch. In wrathful comment on a New York Times story which raised the question of Argentina's "totalitarian" President Perón, Buenos Aires' die-hard Peronista daily La Epoca bellowed: "Such newspapers should not have the right to print, even on toilet paper, such libelous information [against] . . . a nation which is leading the world in the art of liberating people from Communist infection...
...member of the Women's Democratic Organization in Wiesladen; the other, Ursula Adam, was the first president of the League of Women Citizens of Berlin. They are barred from the country under the McCarran Bill section which prohibits admittance to people who have ever been affiliated with a totalitarian organization...
...setting, the movie creates an unusually convincing mythical Balkan state: modern Vosnia, whose beautiful mountain scenery, totalitarian bosses and strained political posture clearly suggest Tito's Yugoslavia. Its natives display the reflexes conditioned in a police state, speak the Vosnian language,* a linguistic mishmash cleverly concocted out of Latin odds and Slavic ends...
Regarding the degree of support which the Communists command in Czechoslovakia, Schmidt cited the difficulty of testing public opinion in a totalitarian state. "The Communist organizations have gained membership since the 1948 coup," he speculated, "mostly because of opportunitists who joined for personal advantage. The membership of the Communist Party itself has probably been reduced by the purges. I don't think they've many converts; they have probably lost converts among the industrial workers, who resent the speed-up and shock-worker campaigns...
...Nixon portions of the omnibus, bill, Chafee attacked the all-inclusive Section 4, which reads: "It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship . . . under the domination or control of any foreign government...