Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger sense, the Chicago production showed a remarkable degree of vitality in the party-and in the political machinery on display. The symbols of ward politics waved like Bourbon banners against a tide of reform, but the party did stage a convention that was more open and more deliberative than any in memory. The passionless play put on by the Republicans in Miami Beach, by comparison, was a mere ratification process. Admittedly, the presidential nomination was never in serious question last week. But the party did engage in a candid, spirited debate on the Viet Nam question...
...funeral in 1953 and died a few months later. An almost equally unbending Stalinist took his place: Antonin Novotny, who had been Communist boss of Prague. As the slight winds of liberalism blew throughout the East bloc following Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, Novotny tried his best to ward them off. Even so, the pressure for change built up. Art, especially literature and film making, experienced an underground renaissance. Artists and students demanded freedom of expression. Industrial planners and economists asked for freer and more effective ways of doing business. Last January, the new forces surging within Czechoslovak Communism...
...ever between the Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem. But the two populations have developed a working coexistence that has been one of the small comforts of the Arab-Israeli deadlock. Thanks to Is rael's live-and-let-live occupation policy, the two communities have been awk ward, but relatively peaceable neighbors since...
...theater, a bold cross between an open-air arena and a Pueblo fortress. It has no side walls, and its see-through stage provides the action with a striking natural backdrop of dancing hills. Above the orchestra seats, a red wood-beamed adobe canopy sweeps up ward, then breaks off abruptly to re veal a broad area of New Mexico...
...beginning to find that in the upper ranks of an increasingly centralized management, corporate life did not have quite the kick he found when he was running the Ford division more or less singlehanded. Something of a Medici of management, Frey reads Russian and French as well as Ward's Automotive Reports, used to revel in running all phases of sales, down to seeing that such personal notions as stereo-tape systems and two-way station wagon doors were included among the "better ideas"-as the slogan calls them-in his cars...