Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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*For dancing for the Nazis during the war, a French artists' purge committee, in 1945, forbade Lifar to dance for one year in France.
It started in 1946, when the President decided to purge him from Congress because Slaughter, a Democrat from part of Harry Truman's own home territory, the Fifth Missouri District, persistently voted against the Truman program. Jim Pendergast, his Kansas City henchmen and other good Democrats, including the late...
By 1946, when Harry Truman ordered the purge of Representative Roger Slaughter, Binaggio was able to deliver the votes in good oldtime style. There was some unpleasantness when a grand jury indicted 67 Binaggio helpers for vote fraud, but that was taken care of: someone blew open the election board...
"Enemy Activity." Albania's Communist paper, Zeri i Popullit (Voice of the People), conceded that there had been a party purge. It scolded against "the Fascist gang in Belgrade, and, recently, the anti-party activities of Abedin Shehu . . . enemy activity inside our party."
Retreat. As usual, McCarthy refused to identify his sources, refused to turn over the full documents from which he read scattered excerpts. "Regardless of whether any Senator may disagree with me," he announced defiantly, "that is the procedure which I intend to follow." But, as usual, the names were not...