Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New Dealers have watched him narrowly, and at times anxiously, ever since; yet not once since then has Walter George let that attempted purge influence his views on legislation. No one has ever charged that Georgia's George has yet cast a vengeful vote. This farsighted forbearance seems more...
Davies said, over and over, that he and almost all other diplomats in Moscow at the time were convinced of the guilt of the accused at the celebrated purge trials, but that no one outside of Russia ever seemed to credit that possibility.
The shape and allegiance of the army of liberation was the crucial problem last week in Algiers. General Charles de Gaulle had stood adamantly for: 1) a purge of ex-Vichyite officers; 2) a modernization of the armed forces along the lines he had vainly preached .for two decades before...
The Giraudists rocked back on their heels. They held out against a purge. The meeting broke up.
¶Ignoring Administration pleas for moderation, ignoring organized labor's threats to purge them, come election time, the House passed (231-10-141) the Smith-Connally strike-and-labor-control bill. Aimed squarely at John Lewis, the bill bristles with restrictions on labor. Mildest Administration slur at the measure...