Word: behind
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Children of Revolution. By then, the party line had been changed. The orders from Moscow were to soft-pedal talk of revolution, work surreptitiously, bore into labor, into Roosevelt's New Deal. It was the beginning of the Pink Decade, when communism hid its face behind a hundred bland fronts, and thousands of U.S. citizens-the well-meaning, the intellectual, the starry-eyed and the muddleheaded-flocked around its feet...
Like any good commissar, Dennis carried out Moscow's orders. But he was not too skillful as an executive officer and tactician. He tried, for example, to get Mike Quill, onetime devout party-liner, to throw the support of his C.I.O. Transport Workers Union behind Henry Wallace's presidential campaign. Quill refused. When...
...trade pass into the Russian zone while the blockade was on, the economic situation in Russia's Germany has become increasingly serious. East Berlin's Communist Mayor Friedrich Ebert last week publicly proposed that trade between the two sections of the city be resumed. Behind the scenes, Germans in the Russian zone-apparently including Communists-urged the Soviet military government to come to terms with the U.S. and Britain. One of last week's countless rumors was that Moscow had sent an emissary to Washington to talk over a possible lifting of the siege...
...Anyone," he said, "who thinks I'm going to climb that mountain and sit on top amid the ice and snow spying on Russia through a telescope, must be insane. Besides," he added wistfully, "if the secret service were behind me, I wouldn't have so much trouble raising money...
...democracy, statesmen go on vacation, break a leg, get the flu and even retire or die without creating more than a mild flurry of editorial comments or oratorical farewells. But Communist leaders in their world behind the Iron Curtain fare differently. Because so little information about their lives is allowed to leak out, Red bigwigs can scarcely go away for a country weekend without creating a storm of speculation-on either side of the Curtain-that they have been purged, exiled or demoted in disgrace...