Word: marc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glasses, rubbed his face and yawned prodigiously in his front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...
...running low on gas while they searched the shadowy sea for their carriers. Then he made his decision: "Turn on the lights." Instantly, on his orders, the ocean blazed with glowing beacons. Many a pilot who otherwise would have crashed into the dark ocean was saved. And Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, who won his own wings in 1916, had won the passionate admiration of Navy pilots everywhere...
...backhanded way, to Lenin. In 1921 Lenin found time for a campaign-much like Hitler's later one-of "organized indignation" against modernists in Russia, which drove the incorrigibles from the country. In exile they contributed to the main stream of European art history. Among them: expressionist Marc Chagall; the late abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky...
...irate woman then tackled Boss Marc on his pro-Russian voting record in the House-a thrust that brought a new round of boos. By the time Marcantonio closed his remarks with a ringing "My opponent, Bryan, can go plumb, straight to hell!" he was glaring and disheveled, and voters were taking off their coats in defiance of police...
...workaday citizens, however, Marcantonio is the man who fought Lend-Lease and the draft-until Germany invaded Russia; the man who has repeatedly denied Communist leanings while faithfully following the gyrations of the party line. Tammany, the C.I.O.'s P.A.C. and the A.L.P. were all supporting little Marc for re-election-but that might not be enough...