Word: wilsonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed that Riccardo, whose sometimes brusque manner long ago earned him the nickname "the Flamethrower," would have to do just that. Wilson denounced the Riccardo ultimatum, angrily protesting that Chrysler had left the government "with a pistol at its head." But last week in a startling, if characteristically Wilsonian, about-face, the Prime Minister agreed to help out Chrysler after...
...prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labor Party," she said, in an emotional speech to Parliament. The post she rejected was left temporarily vacant when Transport Minister Fred Mulley moved over to fill Prentice's Education portfolio. As one Labor M.P. observed, it was "a classic Wilsonian reshuffle: no inspiration, all tactics, every move a tortuously devised counterpiece...
Through it all, Lawrence wrote up to six columns a week, and it was as a columnist that he was best known; in the late '50s, more than 350 papers carried his opinions. These views infuriated many and often puzzled even his admirers. He called himself a Wilsonian liberal. That brand, he said, was "true liberalism." His positions on domestic affairs generally reflected the right wing of the Republican Party. Though an enrolled Democrat, Lawrence supported the re-election of Hoover in 1932 (because it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression") and stayed with every subsequent Republican...
...guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another 20 years passed, and the Crimson watched Woodrow Wilson evolve and put into practice his "new freedom", with its liberal reforms and its promise of social betterment. Today the Crimson supports the New Deal, foreshadowed by the Wilsonian program and so similar in its aims and accomplishments. The greatest good for the greatest number, though it may require the abandonment of American "rugged individualism", though some traditions are swept away and some groups hard-hit, though the activities and the power of the people's government are extended...
Buckley said the United States had shown for the first time a willingness to grant totalitarian systems moral parity with Wilsonian democracy. The change may have augured the end of "the Wilsonian idea" in this country, which prescribes limits to state intervention in the lives of citizens, he said...