Word: bolshevistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the infant Bolshevist regime started its climb to power, Abraham Heller was quick to give a helping hand. Again radicalism paid off. In 1919 he set himself up as Russia's purchasing agent in the U.S., claimed $200 million in gold to start trade relations rolling. In 1920, already a Party member, he financed the first U.S. Communist convention...
...dispatching to Rio a longtime Bolshevist of Surits' standing, the Soviets had paid the respect due to big, rich Brazil's growing eminence in world affairs. Surits would probably keep a weather eye on the seven other Russian diplomatic missions in Latin America-much as late Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky supposedly did in Mexico City...
...moved the New York Times's tart Columnist Simeon Strunsky to remark: "Perhaps . . . Pravda will better understand what we mean by freedom of the press if we say it is a state of things, roughly speaking, in which Lenin [for five years, even with interruptions], could publish a Bolshevist newspaper...
...ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...
...Gardener & the Gauleiter. For years, old Anton and his beautiful niece. Leni, had raised succulent beer-radishes on the little island, while his two old sisters, Martha and Anna, sailing up & down at opposite ends of a seesaw, had pumped the Danube water over the crop. "Bolshevist swine," said Gauleiter Stoltz, when he saw the Fischers after the affair of the pig. "Lord & Lady of Radish Island, and two old crows." Old Anton rose from his seat in the beer garden, carefully removed the Gauleiter's spectacles, and smacked both sides of the Nazi's fat face until...