Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists get an innocent assist from a fact of international life: in sensitive, prideful nations the cost in political irritation over foreign bases can come to outweigh the military advantage. In the wake of the Japanese rioting over the U.S. Security Treaty (which guarantees U.S. bases for a minimum of ten years), India's Prime Minister Nehru last week denounced foreign bases as an "irritating symbol of foreign power and a reminder of war." Columnist Walter Lippmann, citing Japan, held that the forward-base system had become "increasingly unworkable" since the Soviets developed a nuclear striking force. "There...
...Japan. In the heady early years of the occupation, General MacArthur was somehow persuaded to let SCAP's Labor Division fasten onto Japan a set of labor-relations laws that gave Japanese unions a readymade war chest by imposing the dues "checkoff," and saddled the country with minimum standards for working hours, accident compensation, etc. matching those of the U.S. Desperately short of trained leaders, the unions all too often turned to Socialist and Communist agitators, who set about converting the labor movement into an anti-American political tool...
...William McKinley, in 1896, and Warren G. Harding, in 1920, won easily with "front-porch" campaigns, letting the groups of voters and the politicians come to them. And Franklin Roosevelt used the pressures of wartime as a reason for limiting his campaign appearances outside Washington to a bare minimum...
...Because they, just like the capitalists, are "enemies of peace, democracy and student freedom." What is needed, says Aruga, are "people's revolutions in all countries" to overthrow "corrupt" rulers. Once that has been done, people are so innately good, he says. that they will require only "minimum control by government." Except for the fact that nuclear war would "lead to humanity's end," Aruga would applaud a death struggle between the West and Communism-it would simply be a "futile struggle between different sorts of bureaucrats...
...necessarily woman's. Experiencing more security and less anxiety than men, women find it easier "to enter into loving relationships in which self-concern is at a minimum." Instead of masculine pride and will to power, women have their own "specifically feminine forms of sin ... outgrowths of the basic feminine character structure" and "suggested by such items as triviality, distractibility, and diffuseness; lack of an organizing center or focus; dependence on others for one's own self-definition; tolerance at the expense of standards of excellence; inability to respect the boundaries of privacy; sentimentality, gossipy sociability, and mistrust...