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...including Paris, the extreme Left lost ground. For this unexpected twist there was an explanation. Communist propaganda had reached its peak effectiveness in the politically conscious cities last October. Since then, city-dwellers had mulled over the Red slogan, "Thorez to Power!", balked at the implication of dictatorship. The crest of Communist propaganda had hit rural areas later. Country folks' reaction to the cry for power to Communist Leader Maurice Thorez might well become evident in next month's elections for a new Constitution-drafting Assembly...
...eruption it is a thing out of Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...
...waves are low and confused but as they work their way out they pick up momentum and rhythm, become long, heaving swells of tremendous power. The waves which hit Hawaii were moving at approximately 400 miles an hour. Since the waves washed ashore at twelve-minute intervals, the crest-to-crest distance must have been about 80 miles...
...actual fight, he reduced it to its salients-the proud cumbrousness of the armored French chevaliers, and Henry's outnumbered archers, cloth-clad in the humble colors of rural England. A wonderful epitomizing shot-three French noblemen drinking a battle-health in their saddles-is like the crest of the medieval wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release...
...Crest. Then, in 1934, the great opportunity beckoned. The Roosevelt landslide of 1932 had shaken Republicanism to its foundations. In rural Wisconsin, prices and incomes were down. When the La Follettes left the G.O.P. to found the Wisconsin Progressive Party, the restless voters rallied solidly behind them. By 1936 most of Wisconsin's state officers were Progressives, and the new party boasted Bob Jr. in the Senate, seven men in Congress, 16 in the State Senate and 48 in the State Assembly...