Word: winning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thaw" or "peace." It must close down its worldwide deterrent bases and disarm. It should reap the golden harvest of trade with Communist nations. It should leave to a furious peacetime competition the settlement of the classic feud between Communism and capitalism. Ultimately, he declared cockily, Communism would win anyway...
...grandstand play, capitalizing mercilessly on the lurking fear of nuclear holocaust, Khrushchev's brash maneuver might win him some propaganda advantage with plain people around the world. And some U.S. officials continued to argue that Khrushchev genuinely wants some measure of disarmament, which would permit him to switch military manpower and funds into raising Soviet living standards. But in blasting off so crudely from his U.N. launching pad, Nikita had displayed a brute cynicism that repelled responsible statesmen everywhere. "It sounds so easy," said an Asian delegate to the U.N. "I think he must take us for morons...
...win back France's Communist-led, largely unchurched working classes, the French cardinals in 1943 founded the "Mission to Paris." Specially trained young priests began to take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other pastoral duties during off hours. By 1953, it was obvious that something had gone wrong: of almost 150 worker-priests, some 20 had married and left the church while others had joined Communist unions or Redline causes. Pope Pius XII sternly limited les prêtres-ouvriers to three hours...
...Private Property, his first movie. Written and directed by Stevens, Property was produced in Stevens' own Hollywood backyard, has Stevens' actress wife (Kate Manx) as its star, cost only $60,000, and has already brought bids of more than $300,000-although the movie has yet to win Hollywood's Production Code seal of approval...
Saturday's contest against the University of Massachusetts should give the substitute units an opportunity to gain experience. Though the UMass eleven lacks experience, it rallied for a surprising win over Maine Saturday. When the two teams met last, in 1955, the Crimson swamped the state team...