Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again and again. Hoffa. regally referring to himself in the third person, grabbed the initiative, freely accused Bobby Kennedy of "headline hunting." once grimly threatened to sue him for making anti-Hoffa speeches...
Most Cubans were still convinced that Castro is not the Communist that his old friend, Díaz Lanz. says he is. But by outlawing anti-Communism in Cuba, he had proved that, willingly or not, he is the Reds' best tool in Latin America since Jacobo Arbenz fled Guatemala in 1954 and eventually fetched up in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And he is a strongman of terrifying power. No Cuban could feel safe when one man could, with mere words, so quickly reduce the President of his country to the status of a traitor...
...adulation, and half-hearted his opposition. Last week was the anniversary of the founding, in 1838. of La Trinitaria, a secret patriotic society devoted to freeing the country from Haitian occupation. In the 2Qth year of the "Era of Trujillo," Trinitaria is back in business as the anti-Trujillo underground. Three-man cells are forming. For protection against Trujillo's secret police, only one member of each cell knows the name of one member of another cell. But the underground is small and probably futile...
...Germans were also very nasty about anti-handling booby traps. One type of fuse was supersensitized after the bomb hit the ground, with a switch so delicate that it could operate if the bomb shell was tapped with a pencil. Hartley's men learned to outwit some mechanisms by injecting a quick-setting plastic. If the bomb is too difficult to defuse, they drill holes in its casing and melt out the explosive with live steam...
Died. Henry Prather Fletcher, 86, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders who parlayed his wartime glory into a career (1902-29) as a poker-and polo-playing diplomat, while Ambassador to Chile and later Mexico deftly deflated anti-Americanism with a caustic wit, served (1934-36) as a bumbling Old Guard chairman of the Republican National Committee when the party got its most disastrous defeats by the New Deal; in Newport...