Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where is NATO? The UN? Where are the Americans? The British? The French? We listened to your radios. We believed in freedom. There is no time now for conferences and discussion. Give us arms. Send the bombers. Crush the Soviet terror which is about to end our hard-won liberty...
World War II: called into Stalin's Hungarian propaganda section, edited Uj Hang (New Voice) in Moscow, and broad cast from Budapest-beamed Radio Kossuth (named after National Hero Louis Kossuth, who led Hungary's 1848 struggle for independence which a Russian army helped crush). Returned to Hungary in the baggage train of the onsweeping Red army in 1944, along with Gero, Rakosi and other Moscow-trained Communists, to take over liberated Hungary...
...decision to make. Should they continue to appease the satellites, move cautiously ahead with more concessions and hope to achieve the "national Communism" they were prepared to accept? Or should they renounce the liberalization policy (and throw out its discredited advocate, Khrushchev), return to the iron ways of Stalin, crush opposition ruthlessly, and wait for a new generation to grow...
...regime backed up its pleas by cancelling army leaves and putting 120,000 army troops on emergency alert to crush any anti-Soviet uprising...
...lash Democratic "partisan oratory that has concealed or twisted the facts" on small business, the cost of living, schools and labor. Said Ike: "I wonder what kind of political children they think we are-and what kind of a man do they think I am?" So great was the crush after the speech that the President forgot his topcoat, made the return trip to the airport in a tweed model borrowed from a Secret Service...