Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children of Revolution. By then, the party line had been changed. The orders from Moscow were to soft-pedal talk of revolution, work surreptitiously, bore into labor, into Roosevelt's New Deal. It was the beginning of the Pink Decade, when communism hid its face behind a hundred bland fronts, and thousands of U.S. citizens-the well-meaning, the intellectual, the starry-eyed and the muddleheaded-flocked around its feet...
...once been so tolerant of the whole business, had reacted violently against it. The party which had once controlled a good chunk of the C.I.O. unions, retained desperate control in only two big ones: the electric workers and the West Coast longshoremen. The alien cast of communism's face became plain for everyone to see. The disclosure of Communist espionage sent Reds scuttling in every direction...
Dennis quickly learned the new doctrine and stared into the tunnel now yawning before him. Who would be chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...
...porous and had been left outdoors: Had it been exuding moisture? Shirley Anne had her own simple answer: "God made it cry for some reason." The chancellor of the Syracuse Diocese was cautious; as others had done, he conceded that moisture seemed to show on St. Anne's face when Shirley Anne kissed it, hastened to add that "the explanation of the fact, or its significance, has not been established...
...West remained cagey and noncommittal. It seemed content to sit back and let Russia make the first move. Whatever the Russians tried to do, Allied airmen last week proved that they could go on supplying Berlin until Joseph Stalin laid his cards face-up on the table (see below...