Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Mayor of blockaded Berlin, came to Washington to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors and was cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention to the strategy...
...jumped up and cried: "I know what has happened to all the people who could not be here with us ... I wait myself to be arrested at any time." Fast seemed overly apprehensive. Even Leipzig-born Communist Gerhart Eisler, facing deportation, was at liberty and in attendance at the big meeting...
Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets, whose The Big Knife is doing a brisk business on Broadway: "I am proud to reach out and shake the hand of any man or woman who has the courage to appear here ... If I speak here Sunday, I may be without a job Monday. The country is a little in the state of unholy terror from coast to coast...
Sixteen solemn U.S. citizens filed into the jury box in a big walnut-paneled and marble courtroom in Manhattan last week, rose in their three-tiered box as Federal Judge Harold Medina made his entrance. The black-robed Court seated himself in his high-backed chair, looked out over the top of his desk and nodded to U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey. The trial of eleven Communist leaders, charged with conniving as Communists to overthrow the Government by violence, had finally got down to business...
...tailism, Browder was riding the ideological coattails of such "bourgeois" thinkers as Franklin Roosevelt. Opportunistic error, said Budenz, was failing to follow the Marxist-Leninist line. Revisionism was erroneously believing in peaceful progress towards socialism. And just plain Browder-ism: being guilty of all the other errors in one big lump...