Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step to root [Communists] out of our union completely." Then the delegates upheld the expulsion of five of the N.M.U.'s noisiest left-wing troublemakers. Among them: ex-Vice President Joe Stack and onetime National Secretary Ferdinand Smith, whom the U.S. is trying to deport as an alien Red...
Thomas Mellon faded into senility and Andy and R.B. ran the show. Andy-shy, diffident, frail, and pale-eyed, fingering his thin cigars; R.B.-hearty, affable, horsy, married to Jennie King, a lively lady who wore a red wig-two brothers quite unlike in most respects but exactly alike in their acquisitiveness and the accuracy of their financial calculations...
...flat stretches of Flushing Meadows, fanned by autumn's first cool breezes, the red and yellow dahlias nodded cheerily. So did Andrei Vishinsky. "I," beamed the Soviet Foreign Minister on his arrival, "am optimistic by nature...
...soldiers snapped to attention for the Germans. Waiting in a drawing room were the high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help to Germany, expressed the hope that Germany would soon get greater autonomy...
...line as the "boundary of peace," all parliamentary decorum disappeared. As the delegates raged against Reimann, two men in dirty, torn, Wehrmacht greatcoats, P.W.s just released by Russia, shoved their way into the chamber and yelled: "No home, nothing to eat, and then we have to listen to this Red gaff!" Communists charged a "provocation." Said one Christian Democrat delegate gloomily: "It's a good thing we still have an Occupation Statute...