Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three bosses of the Red-wired electrical workers-President Albert Fitzgerald, Julius Emspak, James Matles-made the same fruitless overtures. Big Joe Curran, an ex-party-liner himself, boss of the maritime union and one of Murray's chief aides, chortled: "It used to be when Jim Matles walked in the room, we all stood up. Now we don't even let him in the room." This was not quite correct: Murray did let him in, and listened before waving...
...possibly very good jet-propelled airplanes. Now, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, just off the presses, has told what it knows and surmises about Russian jets. With five drawings ("impressions") and one photograph,, Jane's gives some interesting descriptions, some of them fragmentary, of Red single-jet fighters, twin-jet attack bombers and fighters, four-jet bombers...
During the war Dictator Stalin helped to set up Dictator Tito in Yugoslavia. The Soviet Encyclopedia (1946 edition) says: "Led by Tito, the People's Liberation Army together with the Red Army smashed the Germans in 1944 ... He has a brilliant talent for army leadership, he has a great personal courage combined with a great charm and with the talent of an outstanding politician and statesman...
...stood firmly by its plan for international control, which last year was approved by a vast majority of U.N.'s General Assembly, the six Red-bloc nations dissenting. The plan provides for 1) a cooperative international agency to own and control all atomic energy, including production for peaceful use; 2) inspection by representatives of the control commission, who must have "unimpeded rights of ingress, egress and access . . . into, from and within the territories of any participating nation"; 3) majority rule in the control commission, without a veto...
...first-floor suite at the Ritz last week, the day after he had seen his London doctor for the last time, Peter refused the breakfast proffered by his valet. "I am going up to see a friend on the sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...