Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought up in Owosso (pop. 8,000), where he had a perfect attendance record at school, played football and tootled the tuba in the school band. His parents were strict: they once forbade him to use his tricycle for a whole year because he had hurt himself in a fall. In his spare time, he sang in the Episcopal choir, managed a magazine route, worked in his father's print shop. One summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World War I. The $800 he saved put him through...
What, then, could the U.S. do? Against Russian fifth columns, against sabotage and debilitating strikes, against the seizure of a country by its "own" Communist Party, the U.S. had as yet no effective weapon. The fall of Czechoslovakia four weeks ago, was final proof of that...
...shots are being fired in the present Battle of Italy; but if the Communists win Italy in a free election, that will have an effect equal to the fall of Singapore and Manila in World War II. It would take years and billions of dollars and thousands of lives to retrieve the loss of Italy...
...Communist Daily Worker (circ. 120,000) and later became its home (domestic) news editor. At war's end, when "I saw the way things were shaping up in Eastern Europe," he had his first doubts about Communism. "It kept bothering me more & more." Last week, appalled by the fall of Czechoslovakia, and the prospects it opened up, he quit his party and his paper, to become a Roman Catholic...
...most promising was Hudson Review, edited by three young Princeton alumni. It also promised the most, notably, never to fall into pedantry or opportunism, nor to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation...