Word: leon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rubashov in Darkness at Noon: at best, he's a composite of Bertrand Russell and William O. Douglas and maybe some World War I pacifist like Roger Baldwin. All we know is that we're supposed to have read about him in the newspapers and that like another diarist. Leon Trotsky, he finds old age creeping up on him suddenly but would rather talk about more public matters...
...attack; in Paris. Wounded and captured at Verdun in 1917, the roly-poly, bespectacled Duclos, a baker's apprentice before the war, joined the party in 1920, working first as an agitator among soldiers and draftees, and later earned the reputation of a political wunderkind by defeating Socialist Leon Blum for the Assembly. An orthodox Stalinist, Duclos gained leverage in the Communist International, virtually directed the 1946 expulsion of onetime U.S. Party Boss Earl Browder for continuing his wartime policy of soft-pedaling the "class struggle." After the Nazis invaded Russia, he organized the French Communist resistance...
...Leon Goetz provided most of the offence with a three-run triple in the fifth, as Harvard chased four pitchers off the mound. Dartmouth starter Dave DeMarco was saddled with the loss...
Yesterday afternoon more than 75 first-year medical students met with F. Sargent Cheever '32, chairman of the review committee and next year's director of admissions, and Dr. Leon Eisenberg, the current chairman of the admissions committee, to clarify certain aspects of the report...
...inning later Marni made a second error, Joe Sciolla reached first and things looked rosy for the Crimson nine when Leon Goetz was hit by a pitch while trying to bunt, placing runners of, first and second with nobody out. But once again Walker responded to the pressure, and quelled Harvard's hopes by first inducing a force-out at third then striking out Barry Cronin on a called third strike, and finally getting Sandy Milley on a grounder...