Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weather Bureau meteorologists spotted the glowering, doughnut-shaped lady far out at sea, east of the Bahamas, early last week. They nicknamed her "Bessie's Hurricane." Red and black hurricane flags went up along the Florida coast. Fishing smacks and yachts scudded for home ports. Floridians methodically, almost casually, shuttered their homes, secured everything that could move, filled bathtubs with drinking and cooking water, got out candles and kerosene lamps...
...Hard Work." The government called out army units to maintain order. The Social Democratic Central Organization of Trade Unions ordered all its member unions to stop their strikes or be expelled. Chief strategist of Finland's courageous defense against the Red assault was a brilliant, little-known Socialist named Unto Varjonen. He is a minister-without-portfolio, but Finns know that his specific job is to fight Communists...
...Representative George Dondero thought he knew the answer to his own question, supplied it from the floor of the House last week. Modern art, he thinks, is not a matter of evolution (as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset contends-TIME, Aug. 22), but of revolution; in short, a Red plot "to destroy the enemy, and we are the enemy. So-called modern...art in our own beloved country contains all the isms of depravity, decadence and destruction...
Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long gazed upward with Red stars in his eyes,* took a searching look about him at the state of science in a world of ideological struggle and bounced off the party line...
...Red Sox. In Communist-controlled Shanghai, Buddhist monks of the Bubbling Well Temple, finding that revenues from religious services had fallen off, announced that they would begin making stockings...