Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But the purge did not take place, and the King found other interests. He disliked formalities, pleased his subjects by driving through the streets unguarded, in the evenings dropped in on commoner friends without ceremony. He toured frontier villages, listened with tears in his eyes to refugees' stories, told...
The world's Communist leaders were obviously way behind Moscow. During Khrushchev's tearful description of the intrigues, plots and counterplots that had marked the last days of Stalin, a voice had called from the body of the hall: "Why didn't you kill him?" Answered Khrushchev...
In the years when Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a stubborn old Bolshevik. At the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, where old-line...
Chinese Earth. Red China's bosses are also making tremendous claims. Writing on "The Surging Tide of Socialism in the Chinese Countryside," Mao Tse-tung last week asserted that some 70 million farm families-more than two-thirds of all peasant households-have now been collectivized. He told a...
Back in Bavaria, Winter's brush exploded with fireworks of color, recalling in whiplash lines the wartime echoes of barbed wire, bombed buildings, prison life. But Winter was not merely evoking the kind of turgid nightmare images that Painter George Grosz (TIME, Nov. 21) used to purge himself of...