Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There he went to the official Lenin School for revolutionists. The necessity of overthrowing capitalism by armed insurrection was part of the school's philosophic teaching. "Part of the practical courses," he said, "was instruction of three months by Red Army officers in uniform, who were specialists in civil warfare, in how to take cities and the countryside." Conditions essential to revolution, as he learned them: chaos among the masses; an organization ready to exploit them...
...Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
...months, Salabarria had fretted over a rival who he felt threatened his power in the department-Emilio Tro, young (29), able police major who fought in the Spanish Civil War (on the Loyalist side) and with the U.S. Army in Europe and the Pacific.† Tro, among other things, had accused Salabarria and his supporters of black market operations. That rankled. For the unsolved murder of one of his men a fortnight ago, Salabarria blamed Tro. It also gave him the excuse he needed. Last week, with a warrant for the arrest of Tro and two friends, Salabarria got together...
...MacBean (Selena Royle) is glad to have Van around, and young Lissy (Janet Leigh) makes eyes enough for a whole county's quota of farmers' daughters. Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) is less easily won over by the stranger. The Civil War has just been fought, and feeling still runs high. Barns are being burned by masked riders; Yankees and ex-Rebels still won't help each other out with the crops, or even keep their tempers at a party. Old Man MacBean, a 100% Rebel, has a burning question: Are the stranger's britches blue...
George the "Greatest." Were George Patton alive, he would surely relish what Allen has to say in Lucky Forward: 1) ". ... Patton was the greatest battle commander produced in this country since the Civil War"; 2) Patton would have ended the European war months sooner had not SHAEF stymied the Third Army every time it got rolling; 3) had Patton's plans not been upset by higher headquarters, the Germans could never have mounted their Ardennes campaign; 4) many of the Third Army's great victories were won only because Patton, sometimes with General Omar Bradley's help...