Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enmity of Hoffa's top lobbyist, blundering, blunderbussing Sidney Zagri. Soon after Zagri denounced Thompson as an enemy to labor, Thompson began getting threatening telephone calls, finally reported them to the FBI. Driving to the Capitol one morning last week. Thompson was stopped at a red light when a green Ford truck pulled up next to him. A man leaned out the window, pointed a rubber syringe at Thompson, squirted a stream of liquid. Only bad aim saved Frank Thompson from serious injury: the liquid was sulphuric acid, and the little that did hit Thompson burned a hole through...
...week's end nine persons were known dead. It would be days or weeks before anyone knew how many others might lie buried beneath the 150-350 ft. of fallen rock. But the American Red Cross, compiling a list based on reports from relatives and friends, said at least 1,500 were known to have been in the area who have not reappeared...
...world's most enduring army of admitted mercenaries is armed with broadswords and halberds and dressed in striped uniforms of blue, red and yellow. But the famed Swiss guards of Vatican City, sworn to defend the Pope to the death, are no mere ceremonial troop; the guardsmen are well trained in hand-to-hand fighting and have an arsenal of Swiss rifles in their quarters in St. Peter's. Last week a pontifical commission gave this elite corps a much-needed streamlining. Recruits were growing hard to find, and there was a rumble of discontent in the ranks...
Germany's Lutherans are strong for reunification of Germany, and in order not to rile the Communists against their Eastern brethren, they refrained from anti-Communist talk in speeches. Instead of bitterness at the Red regime, Lutherans displayed a tendency to look upon its repressions as divine punishment. Said Director Johann Schonherr of the Pastoral Seminary in East Germany's Brandenburg: "If today, in one part of Germany, the church loses many of its old privileges, the church must see this as God's way of regenerating it ... The church must suffer with its people, must share...
Therein, feels Gibney, lies Poland's immense value to the West; the country is "a pilot-study in Communist decay." As the stone of Red repression was temporarily rolled away and the life underneath suddenly laid bare, it became clearer than ever that the Communist state, even when men try to liberalize it, cannot do without coercion and police power. Author Gibney finds another way of saying this, in the words of a witty Polish intellectual. In a small Jewish congregation, so goes the story, a young Communist was puzzling about one of Stalin's famous slogans...