Word: functioned
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This fact reinforces the average Soviet citizen's patriotism, even if he is otherwise apolitical. Says Harvard's Ulam: "The Soviet patriot believes that the function of the state is to be as powerful as possible. He remembers that tsarist Russia was defeated in World War I; now his country is one of the two greatest influences in the entire world. This is a sort of surrogate for his sufferings. Whatever else it has done to him, Communism has made Russia a much more powerful country...
...Cheka and was successively known as GPU, OGPU, NKVD and MGB. A fief within the Soviet state, the KGB is an intelligence agency, counterintelligence organization and internal security police with its own uniformed military branch. Administratively it is divided into various "directorates" whose number and function are frequently scrambled, partly to confuse rival foreign intelligence services...
...Democratic Party is committed to making the U.S. Postal Service function properly...
Already in trouble, Carter made the tactical situation worse two weeks ago by denouncing a laboriously worked-out congressional compromise on the budget, a move that many Congressmen regarded as interference with their function. The mood of the House turned angry, and the gas tax provided a splendid target for that anger. House Speaker Tip O'Neill blocked all action on the bill as long as he could, but the size of the vote showed how overwhelmingly outnumbered...
Ironies abound. Neither war nor peace prevails, and although both the military occupation and the colonial system clearly are coming to their ends, only military and colonial rigidities allow life on the island to function at all. The cynical attitudes of otherwise good men come glaringly into view...