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Word: purgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Chinese Communist leaders were reacting like all Communist leaders who get frightened. From Canton in the south up through Shanghai and Tientsin in the north, Red China echoed to the crack of the executioner's bullet. It was the widest and crudest Communist purge the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Another Chinese Revolution? | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Chiang's Reformed Army. Many of the purge victims are intellectuals and former Nationalist officials who went over to the Communists two years ago in the hope that Mao Tse-tung would give them a "more liberal" government. The irony of their plight is that while the Communist government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGER ZONES: Another Chinese Revolution? | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Representative Edmund Donlan rose to the attack. "We know why you were sent here," shouted Donlan, "they sent you here to purge Shermer, didn't they? You feel he's mentally incompetent, don't you?" As Russo smiled and turned toward the audience, someone shouted, "Why don't you get...

Author: By William Surden, | Title: Cabbage and Kings | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Communism, Hydie has been rootless ever since she gave up Catholicism. Hydie finds her substitute in an affair with Fyodor, whose lovemaking makes her feel "as if she had been run over by an express train." When his ruthlessness and a revelation of his mission show her the true nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Allegory of the '50s | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Since the war, P.B.H. has been sending the clothing and books to Europe, and, more recently, the Far East. The books were sent to universities on the continent to help them get back in operation after the Nazi book purge. Now those universities request certain volumes that can not be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.S.A. Issues Free Discount Cards; P.B.H. Wants Vests, Science Books | 1/9/1951 | See Source »

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