Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some oldtimers had the uneasy feeling that they ought to go out into the Capitol's Statuary Hall and see if the bronze statue of Huey Long was still on its pedestal. Before them in the well of the Senate they saw Huey's pug-nosed, mischievous face, watched his arm chop the air, and heard the voice of Louisiana's murdered demagogue. Huey's 30-year-old son Russell was making his maiden speech...
...Barnard College for girls had always expected big things of Judith Coplon. She majored in history, was managing editor of the college paper, graduated cum laude in 1943. Said her class yearbook: "Deeply philosophical about the fundamentals of life ... an astute analytical mind lurks behind a baby face and emotional brown eyes." Judith joined the economic warfare section of the Department of Justice, rose fast enough to justify her classroom promise. Her job was analyzing the records of foreign agents registering for activities...
...luck had run out; suspicious neighbors called the cops. At week's end, Ray and Martha, having told their brutal story, were waiting to see whether they would be tried in Michigan, where the maximum penalty is a life sentence, or would be extradited to New York to face the electric chair. Blubbered Martha: "I love him." Said sly little Ray: "I'm kind. I'm really kind at heart. But they should kill that woman...
...Matter of Views. As Churchill had seen him at close range, Vyacheslav Molotov was "a man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness . . . His cannonball head, black mustache and comprehending eyes, his slab face, his verbal adroitness and imperturbable demeanor, were appropriate manifestations of his qualities and skill. He was above all men fitted to be the agent and instrument of the policy of an incalculable machine...
Discipline for the Dissidents. Not for the Vishinskys and the Gromykos but for the policymakers is the great problem that now faces the party: how to consolidate the Communist empire in the face of "Titoism." Perhaps Molotov and Mikoyan have been assigned to working out the political and economic arrangements under which the national Communist Parties can be made to work in harness. It was easy when only Russia had an army and a secret police; but now the party faces potential "Titoism" throughout eastern Europe and-especially-in China...