Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They counted without the Party's resilient internal structure, its genius for rationalization. Its first week in gyration produced no public defections of bigwig Reds, no convincing evidence of mass withdrawals even among its Jewish members. Chiefly evident were changes in the Party's U. S. "line." Hitherto the emphasis was on opposition to Fascism; now it was on Peace (but not, in the Party organs, "at any price"). By bedding with Hitler, Joseph Stalin was shown to have done him a fatal favor (PACT SPLITS AXIS WAR ALLIANCE, headlined the Daily Worker). That Russia had replaced Japan...
Communists striving to patch up their Front reflected that they had lost ground during previous alterations of their "line," had always regained it. One who cynically conceded that all might not be lost to them was the Baltimore Stin's Henry Mencken, who was disillusioned long ago. Noting the widespread pain of the pinks, he opined: "The will to believe is not cured by a single sellout, nor even by a dozen on end. It is a chronic affliction, and as intractable as gout, the liquor habit, or following the horses. The American pinks have...
...press in its dissection of the Communists all but ignored the plight of Fritz Kuhn's German-American Bundsters, who have long been nourished on Red bait. Fritz Kuhn took the line that Earl Browder used: what happened in Europe made no difference to Nazis...
With the exception of one appointment, the coaching staff will remain unchanged. Under Harlow on the Varsity will be Wes Fesler in charget of ends; Lyall Clark, line; and John Wood and Vernon Struck, backfield. Skip Stahley will continue with the Yardlings, and Henry Lamar remains with the Junior Varsity. Cliff Wilson has been named to assist Lamar...
...parade of triumphs over the Elis started on a rainy afternoon in the grim, gray Yale bowl, when a favored Crimson eleven finally struck down a particularly tenacious bulldog. Torby Macdonald, captain of the current eleven, snatched a pass over the goal line in the gloaming and "Chie," Boston executed a miraculous place-kick of a wet, muddy ball to give the Crimson victory...