Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mihajlov is the rebellious writer who barely escaped a nine-month jail sentence last year for a series of articles he wrote on Russia. This time his crime was to proclaim that he and half a dozen friends planned to publish a magazine with the frank intent of opposing the government. Its name would be Slobodni Glas (Free Voice) and it would seek to replace one-party rule with a brand of democratic socialism first bruited by Partisan Hero Milovan Djilas, once Yugoslavia's top Communist theoretician but currently a prisoner for his corrosive anti-Marxist critiques...
...bane of every newsman's existence is the publicity handout. In a never-ending stream, handouts arrive in the morning mail to proclaim that Consolidated Everything has just named Jim Jutjaw as the new vice president in charge of personal advancement; or that Sandi Starlet's high-rise bust does not keep her from reading on her back; or that Senator Somnolence has forthrightly called for further discussion...
...happy as you do." Not to be outdone by the military, workers at the Harbin locomotive and rolling stock plant overfulfilled their quotas five to twelve hours ahead of schedule at the news. In a Canton hospital, a navy hero awoke from anesthesia after a brain operation to proclaim: "This joyful news is most inspiring. It is a great happiness to us all that Chairman Mao is so healthy...
...people who specialize in assessing the actions of Fidel Castro are quite aptly called Castrologists, for on the basis of their past record their chief tool seems to be stargazing. Last week they looked up from their horoscopes again to proclaim that Fidel's future looked dim. The reason: for the past seven weeks he had not been acting as they thought he should be acting...
...many commencement speakers across the U.S. Nearly all praised the new activism, but nearly all also added warnings. Richard Nixon, speaking at the University of Rochester, said that he did not "question the patriotism of the protesters," but when a protester uses "the forum of a university to proclaim that he welcomes victory for the enemy in a shooting war, he crosses the line between liberty and license." Michigan State President John Hannah argued at the University of Maryland that "because we agree that each man is entitled to his own opinion does not mean that every...