Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before dawn, three grey-hatted gendarmes rapped sharply at the door of a modest Athens villa. Kosta Tsakolos, head of OPLA (Communist execution squad) during the 1944 leftist revolution, opened the door. "Come with us," ordered a policeman. "I am not coming with you," said the terrorist chief. "Under Greek law you cannot make an arrest at a home during the hours of darkness...
...Greek leftists arrested by the Greek Government on charges of conspiring to set up a Communist state. Biggest catch in the net was 42-year-old Demetrios Partsalides, dapper, white-haired secretary general of the EAM, Communist-controlled leftist coalition. (Partsalides, also arrested a few minutes before dawn, did not quibble about the time...
Fear of the Graves. "As for the Polish intellectuals, they are very stubborn, too. There are even leftist Cabinet ministers here who hate Russia. We must somehow make all Poles understand the need for friendship with Russia-even if it is more with the brain than from the heart...
...waiting crowd had something to cheer about. The Constitution, modeled on the U.S.'s, is the hemisphere's most leftist. It provides specific guarantees for labor: the right to strike, paid vacations, pay for Sunday work, pensions, dismissal bonuses, some profit-sharing. Everyone is guaranteed the right to education, employment and health insurance. The state is given an important role in planning a national economy. The right of private property is recognized and protected; while monopoly is forbidden, capital is to be entitled to a fair return; employer associations are permitted...
When nominations began, Murray learned that both the Eubanks faction and the leftist "independent-progressive" wings were stronger than he. For Murray's office, the Eubanks crowd put up 38-year-old Harry Martin, amusement editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Leftists entered 41-year-old Willard Shelton, onetime editor of the Christian Evangelist, now a Washington correspondent for Manhattan...