Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retribution was quick. Peng was arrested in a purge of "right-wing opportunists," charged with failing "to pass the bourgeois-democratic stage of the revolution" (meaning that he had never been a real Communist at all). As a former member of the Kuomintang, he was accused of joining the Communist...
Tolerance would urge that such productions are not intended to be read at all but to form an expensive, highly colored, temporary parquetry for the playroom floor. But suspicion suggests that the same kind of mind is at work here that tries to purge Huckleberry Finn from the schools, that...
Mao Tse-tung had already discreetly vanished from the public scene by stepping down as head of state-though retaining his all-powerful chairmanship of the Communist Party. This withdrawal by no means meant that Mao was accepting responsibility for the failure of the communes; it was merely the first...
This newspaper display accurately reflected current internal political tension in Cuba. For while Fidel Castro proclaims himself a loyal disciple of Lenin, and dispatches 3,000 Cuban agricultural students to Soviet state farms rather than Chinese communes, Cuban anti-U.S. propaganda sounds more like Peking than Moscow, has never...
Last summer, in a tea-party campaign that bored many of the town's complacent oldtimers, the four angry young men managed to get control of the Twin Lakes five-member school board. Pledged to purge the bloodless readers, to replace word recognition with phonetics, Dennis Beula, 33, an...