Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ends & Means. In Los Angeles, a motorist offered a logical explanation for giving police an 87-m.p.h. chase: "I just couldn't afford another speeding ticket...
Woodland, Frankie Waldron fell in love. At the end of the session when Willie arrived to reclaim his wife, Frankie and Reggie had to tell him that he had arrived too late. Willie disconsolately went back to Los Angeles to immerse himself in party work and later got a divorce. Frankie and the new Mrs. Reggie Waldron returned from Woodland to set up Communist housekeeping in Southern California...
Frankie was pinched trying to organize the pea pickers of the Imperial Valley. Frankie was pinched for unlawful assembly in Los Angeles. He was in jail the night before Reggie bore him a baby, Timothy. His ostensible employment was that of an ice man. With that other, ever-loyal functionary, Willie Schneiderman,* he tried to organize the waterfront, and began to attract the attention of party headquarters in New York. He was charged with resisting arrest during a melee in Los Angeles' Plaza. Then during an unemployment demonstration he waved a placard reading, "Defend the Soviet Union...
...outskirts. There was Frankie. He told his stepmother excitedly: "I'm going to Russia. You'll hear from me." That was the last Amelia ever saw of him. She did hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled at the Lenin Institute in Moscow...
...Lima, pisco is rarely drunk with more relish than in the Cantina de los Médicos, across the Rimac River from the capital. There, in a jumble of jars and bottles behind the musty bar, humble Peruvians may find, steeping in pisco, herb cures for almost every ill known...