Word: bolshevik
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...enemy of the people, Lev Trotski proved indispensable to the regime he had helped install. Back in 1929, Stalin forcibly exiled the erstwhile Bolshevik Number 2 from the Soviet Union, and turned him into the epitome of all the horror that threatened the Soviet Motherland, the bogeyman that the people must rally around the Vozhd to oppose. Moscow show trials were built on alleged ties of the "criminal trotskiite underground" to their exiled principal. All the ills and failures of the Soviet society were explained by the plotting of "trotskiite wreckers." Even after Stalin's agent murdered Trotski with...
...Hardball's Chris Matthews, who has become a leading political cartoonist, says the whiskered Gore looks "like a Bolshevik labor organizer...
This conflicting perception of the Brigade is not new. Since their return from Spain in 1938, some considered members of the Lincoln Brigade American heroes; others, like the State Department and some members of the Catholic Church, classified them as dangerous Bolshevik traitors. During the 1940s, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers interrogated them in their homes and harassed their family members. Many vets had difficulty holding down jobs because FBI agents would convince their bosses to fire the "communist agitators...
Aside from the look and the music of "Kong," of course, are the shaping hands of producer-director Merian C. Cooper and his co-director Ernest Schoedsack. Cooper had been among other things a sailor, a newspaperman, and a combat aviator; while in Poland after his escape from a Bolshevik labor camp, he met veteran newsreel cameraman Schoedsack...
...when I am reading Wodehouse. When I begin to crack under the strain of insinuating political commercials, I intend simply to pass over for a little while into the innocent alternate universe of Bingo's dilemmas as he falls idiotically in love with a tea shop waitress, or a Bolshevik maiden, and applies to Bertie (meaning, of course, Jeeves) to help him sort...