Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage and refused to feather the Munich love nest Hitler offered. Growled Hitler: "All women ever think of is having babies." Having divorced her first husband, lonely Maria married an SS officer named Kubisch in 1936. Hitler congratulated Kubisch before the assembled Munich SS, and later sent Mimi 100 red roses when Kubisch was killed in France...
...grey, glum village square of the town of Kildare (pop. 2,617), a big red sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin...
...killed on the spot, and then, in that favorite democratic ritual in the Middle East, his body was dragged through the streets. In the excitement, civil control collapsed and the army last week took over Taiz, Yemen's second capital, and for good measure seized Hodeida, the main Red Sea port, as well...
...Resign! Resign!" the pickets had demanded of the Communist government of Kerala, India's only Red-ruled state. Kerala's Communist Chief Minister, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, refused even to consider the demands from local Socialist, Moslem and Congress Party groups. Equally implacably, he continued to enforce a law tightening his government's control of private schools-a measure that had driven Kerala's numerous Roman Catholics and Hindu Nairs to league against him. In the first eight days of Gandhi-style, "nonviolent" demonstrations against the Reds, Namboodiripad's police three times fired into crowds, killed twelve...
...used against the British were not justified "when there is a remedy open according to law." The second reason for the about-face was practical. What had really shaken the Congress Party's nerve was a Communist threat that, unless the Kerala campaign was called off. well-disciplined Red mobs would launch similar assaults against Congress governments in India's other 13 states...