Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel foundry-until one day he received his reward for devotion to the cause. He was put on the Communist Party payroll as a $15-a-week instructor. The Waldrons went their separate ways, Nora to go into show business, Amelia to work in a library. Frankie, seedy-looking and burning-eyed, with a shock of wild hair, went off to teach Marxist economy at a youth seminar at a Finnish community in Woodland, Wash...
...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...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...
...North Atlantic Treaty had given the democracies a new sense of unity, and implicit assurance that the U.S. meant to go to war if the Red army tried to invade Western Europe; but the treaty, by the very fact that it also committed Western Europe to stand against aggression, had thrown into sharp and shocking relief
...Hector McNeil, British delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Last week McNeil rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman meet ... [He will find] that the credit built up so rapidly by the valor of the Red Army has been dissipated...