Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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How the Communists managed it no one in the West knows. (To this day no one knows the secret of the 1937 purge trial confessions in Russia.) Somehow they broke Joseph Mindszenty, man of burning courage. Somehow they made him say things he had denied with the utmost vehemence, and...
Communists denounced Father Molnar. In Mikofalva's only school, now run by the government, the teachers have not removed the crucifixes from the walls. Said the secretary of the local Communist Party: "I would rather resign or face a purge than remove the image of the first Communist, Jesus...
Last week, with his purge over, President Ashby felt that his college was finally getting back to normalcy. "If there's one thing this college needs," he said, "it's a little more discipline." Sighed a professor who had survived the purge: "We need a little law & order...
When Irish-born and English-schooled Louis MacNeice first started writing verse in the late 1920s, he joined up with the bad boys, led by W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, who had set out to purge the English soul of bourgeois stodginess and English poetry of romantic fripperies. The...
No Purge. Murray's attack was not to be taken as a purge, he said. It was simply in the interests of good trade unionism. He pointed an accusing finger at three unions which he said were falling down on the job of organizing the unorganized. They were Durkin...