Word: fascistically
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...economic situation he described as good could only be so measured by Spain's standards; but at least it was dramatic improvement, and there was a noticeable decline in anti-Franco sentiment inside Spain. Agile Francisco Franco, junior and lone-surviving member of Europe's prewar fascist dictators, seemed to be in better shape than at any time in his 13 years in office...
...moments and before a rally of 150,000 Reds preached the old-time doctrine, according to St. Stalin. His voice shrill, he shouted: "The Catholic Church . . . has always made mistakes when national honor, progress and social justice were at stake . . . and now [it is] plotting with reactionary and Fascist elements; of the worst type! . . ." The crowd, which had listened apathetically as he began his speech with conciliatory platitudes, cheered wildly at his sudden change of manner...
...went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry-go, patrols, digging; digging, patrols, sentry-go. On every hilltop, Fascist or Loyalist, a knot of ragged, dirty men shivering round their flag and trying to keep warm. And all day and night the meaningless bullets wandering across the empty valleys and only by some rare improbable chance getting home on a human body...
...improbable chance caught up with Orwell when a sniper winged him. But for a man of his intense integrity the deeper wound came when he went back to Barcelona on sick leave. To his horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still the best book...
...editions, the CRIMSON published an account of an interview by its reporter, Malcolm D. Rivkin, with Gordon Hall, a Boston writer and lecturer. In this article, Mr. Hall was quoted as saying that William F. Buckley, Jr. was "even more of a fascist than he's cracked...