Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hungary, which also freed its farmers from collectives at the time of the 1956 revolution, has lured more of them back. Partly, in the melancholy wake of the Soviet suppression, Hungarians feel resigned to getting along with their Communist masters. By boosting Hungary's investment in agriculture and by funneling two-thirds of the funds straight into the collective farms, Communist Boss Janos Kadar has managed to bring roughly 17% of Hungary's land and peasants once more under collectivization. But it is slow going, and Hungary remains, after Poland, the most "hesitant" Soviet-bloc country in socializing...
...housing, agricultural, and unemployment compensation cuts affect substantial segments of the low and middle income brackets, the restless majority recovering slowly in the wake of the recession. But the President is optimistic about business recovery; in fact, he is counting on it desperately to raise needed government revenue. In spite of this emerging bull market, however, he is strangely reluctant to take such measures as restoring the cut in the capital gains tax (which cost the government $4 billion in annual revenue) the Administration made four years...
...satellites long after the furor has ceased to be fashionable. Typically, he orates: "We are like penguins wrapped in blubber. We have wrapped ourselves in such a layer of luxury we are virtually impervious to what goes on in the world around us. We may be unable to wake up in time to meet the crisis that Sputnik graphically posed...
...shudder to think that any job I might get could be had only by paying tribute to some power-mad labor leader. Looking at my children, I feel that we must make the right-to-work laws justify the trouble, or we sleeping (almost) free Americans may wake up to find ourselves regretful prisoners of the "liberals...
...that Sir Hubert could open the hatch at the Pole and pop out on top of the world. Leaky, her propellers serrated by chunks of ice, the ship turned back, and a relieved world smiled. But last summer, when the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nautilus followed in his wake and went on to the Pole, Sir Hubert Wilkins' face took on a Cheshire grin...