Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shuffle of ballots, one item of striking significance was widely overlooked-in a vote dominated by pocketbook considerations, the Republicans had come close to running the Democrats a dead heat! The booming prosperity since 1954 has strengthened further the Republican economic appeal . . . The chief Republican liability [i.e., the stigma of depressions] has been ebbing-just how fast is the question that probably will decide the 1956 election...
...Great Rewrite. One of the chief side effects of the Great Rewrite of history is the rehabilitation of former "Titoist criminals," dead or alive. Among last week's subjects for party absolution was Traicho Rostov, a Bulgarian Communist who had shocked his judges and been hissed in court when he denied having made the 32,000-word "confession" of traitorous acts presented at his trial in 1949. Last week it seemed that Rostov, who had been duly hanged, was really innocent all along...
...Stalin's order in 1938, said Lukacs. Wiped out with Bela Run, he added, were a hundred other Hungarian Communists and "the entire Polish Communist leadership" numbering several hundred men. According to approving George Lukacs: "The Russians are now going to rehabilitate their victims in enormous numbers, dead or alive . . . Every single case must be reviewed," a job likely to take "quite some time because their number is staggering...
Soon after their outfit gets a toe hold on the Italian boot, Paratrooper Lieut. Sam Loggins tabs his radioman T/5 Britt Harris as a grandstand soldier. Against Loggins' orders, the corporal guides some medics into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...
Raise the Dead. Himself a paratrooper and winner of a battlefield commission (and now a TIME correspondent in Britain), Novelist Brown paints combat in its primary colors of blood, mud and terror. He also etches telling vignettes of the lunatic grotesqueries of war, e.g., a paratroop major with 20 ft. of primer cord wrapped around him and 40 lbs. of explosives on him is hit in the chest by a tracer bullet as he stands ready to jump, and reels back into the plane with the primer cord smoldering, but a quick-witted sergeant kicks him out, and he explodes...