Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlawful to get out of it." In the Paris zoo, penguins squatted on ice cakes. In Madrid, which justified its climatic reputation ("Nueve meses de invierno y tres meses de infierno"-nine months of winter and three months of hell), traffic cops performed their duties beneath specially issued red & white parasols...
...right hand. Social reforms have been few. The Huks feed on poverty and class bitterness. Two weeks ago police captured Raymundo Viray, a husky tenant farmer who took part in the Quezon ambush. In the "Stalin School" at Huk headquarters his instructors had taught him "Communism, songs like the Red Flag and the International, and all about Communist success in Russia and China." Awaiting trial in the Nueva Ecija provincial jail, he related how, before the Quezon ambush, his group had raided a convoy of ten trucks without harming anyone. "Why didn't you loot the Quezon party...
Viking Chief Eric Kiersgaard was glad of a chance to stand up, even under the hot sun; he had developed abscesses from sitting on the Hugin's wooden thwarts. The big red-and-white-striped sail had helped; but the crew had worked so hard at the oars that they had worn out the seats of their Wagnerian costumes, borrowed from Copenhagen's Royal Opera Company...
...Davidson College, came upon an abandoned summer camp for boys in the woods near Brevard. The lake was a weed patch; the buildings were gone to rack & ruin. Pfohl made a pay-you-later deal with the owners, rebuilt the camp and opened it. After three seasons in the red, he persuaded Brevard's civic leaders to back the camp...
...windows and a cozy fireplace, the house has a small bedroom separated by a draw curtain from the living room. The living room can also be converted into a second bedroom. The house is heated by a system of glass-radiant heaters that plug into sockets, throw off infra-red rays which warm the body...