Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Rains ... In Bogotá, Colombia, after holding special services to pray for rain, citizens had to call on the army and Red Cross to rescue 50 families made homeless by flood waters...
...spaces between the clean, stone cliffs of buildings seemed like enormous, breeze-blown gardens of women's hats-they bloomed for blocks in a frothy, flowering profusion of red, yellow, blue and green...
...Frankie ever had any doubts about the choice he had made, he was sucked in now; there was no turning back. In Shanghai, living at the Foncin Apartments, 643 Route Frelupt, he operated as a Red organizer. He used many aliases. Somewhere along the line he decided that he would become "Eugene Dennis." So far as he was concerned, Francis X. Waldron Jr. was dead and buried. Not a trace of him remained, not even a Seattle streetcar token...
...arranged their passports and sent them packing, full of zeal. For Dennis, no chance for conquest was to be neglected. One of his followers, pretty, brown-haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church's old Epworth League. One ex-Red remembers a Sunday night when Ann got an Epworth League discussion group around to agreeing that if Christ were alive today he would be a strike leader and a revolutionist...
...Climax. Dead in the center of the battery of defending lawyers, he sat last week. So that he could make speeches, a right denied to a mere defendant, he had elected to be his own lawyer. He lounged in a red leather swivel chair, made a business of taking notes, glowered at Federal Judge Harold Medina, scowled at the back of the neck of U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, stared at the Government witnesses, two FBI agents, who took the stand to add their testimony to the mounting evidence...