Word: backslide
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After Pirogov reported this to U.S. authorities, Barsov was watched closely. Immigration men had no intention of allowing the Russians to smuggle their backslid refugee out of the country in a dramatic "rescue." Three weeks later, Pirogov arranged to meet Barsov in a Washington restaurant "Aux Trois Mousquetaires," a block from the White House...
...marbled corridor off the pressroom one morning last week, newsmen surrounded blocky Frank Gordon, the assistant U.S. attorney. For 9½ days in Manhattan's federal court, Witness Louis Budenz, the backslid Red, had made out the case against eleven top U.S. Communists charged with conspiring to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. Government. Now, the reporters asked, who would the prosecution's next witness...
...early discord among the pals. Menachim Beigin's ultra-nationalist Freedom Movement refused to be called a right-wing party, ignored its allotment of seats on the chamber's extreme right, and stubbornly sat down on the left. The Communists objected to the seating of their own backslid deputy, Eliezer Preminger, who, they claimed, had been purged for 1) robbing a bank, and 2) planning secession from the party. The Assembly ignored the Communist protests and seated Pal Preminger...
...Manhattan's adless tab, which bragged in June that it had spent a whole year in the black, backslid a fortnight ago into...
...might turn out that in spite of P.A.C. the Republicans had at least held their own in industrial areas, but had lost be cause Republican districts had backslid -yielding slimmer majorities than anticipated...