Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little village, perched on the lip of a river gorge, was a bright little place with a steepled church and red-roofed houses. Because such surrounding peaks as snowcapped Karwarasu act as sounding boards for the hot springs that gurgle intermittently in the neighborhood, the Incas had named the village Sondondo-"the place that beats like a heart...
...limousine after limousine slid up to the canopied portico of Derby House in London's Stratford Place, a red-coated footman intoned the names of the visitors -two dukes, seven earls, eight lords, three ambassadors, the Prime Minister. Within, the host, a book publisher who calls himself "the world's largest," stood graciously receiving his guests...
...Many Red hams add chatty notes to their cards. One QSL card arrived from Rumania bearing the casual, newsy footnote that a neighboring ham-his call letters were given-"has just been arrested...
Soviet encouragement of ham activity seems odd, but the Red bosses have undoubtedly discovered (as did the U.S. during the war) that hams are a ready-made pool of communications experts whose services are invaluable...
...University of Kentucky has its own special brand of Southern hospitality. When visiting basketball squads arrive in Lexington, they get full red-carpet treatment (which often includes a tour of nearby horse farms). Then, like condemned men whose last hours on earth have been made easier, the visiting athletes are led off to the gym-and the execution...