Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently Gomulka hopes to seek his cure in a return to the doctrinaire methods of the Stalinists, but he can only do so at the grave risk of political upheaval. Many a loyal Gomulka supporter is beginning to grumble. One of them, 41-year-old Politburo Member Jerzy Morawski, one of Gomulka's closest lieutenants, turned in his resignation last week at news that the old tough crowd was back...
Thus, only six months ago, an imaginative member of the Chinese Politburo summed up his government's agricultural policies in a Peasant Poem, and no one inside China at the time was of a mind to doubt a single line of it. In 1959, Peking had declared, the nation's farms would outproduce by 40% even last year's staggering claim of 375 million tons of grain, which was already said to be nearly double the output of 1957. Western specialists were inclined to view this as exaggeration piled upon exaggeration (TIME...
...member Central Committee. These were the hardcore, Moscow-First group who had tried to keep Gomulka out of office in the first place, and determinedly opposed the bloodless revolution that brought Poles a measure of freedom in 1956. Gomulka also beefed up the party's nine-man Politburo by adding two of his friends to its ranks...
...other-directed statistician-turned-sociologist slipped in through the woodwork last night with a message between his two chiseled teeth: Albert Guerard's Politburo of Comp Lit 166 favorites was re-elected almost unanimously. Topping the psychological ten, two years running, was Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Other perennial repeats included Lord Jim, The Power and the Glory, Death in Venice, and The Immoralist. The Devils replaced The Plague, which was dropped from the course...
...when the old regime tried to arrest him in 1950, he visited Moscow, Bucharest and then Sofia, where the top Middle East Communist, Turkey's Nazim Heikmet, operates. Sherif returned to Iraq last July. Since the Communist Party is nominally illegal in Iraq, Sherif heads a three-man politburo which calls itself the "Iraqi High Committee." The overall Communist boss inside the Arab world is Syria's Khaled Bakdash, whom Nasser let back into Syria last October as one payoff for his arms aid from Moscow...