Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotional speeches the Cortes voted unanimous confidence in the Negrin Government and adjourned for the day. Two facts were important. Into the hall to take his seat stepped 75-year-old Manuel Portela Valladares, Premier of Spain in 1936 when the Popular Front took power, and politically about as Red as U. S. Senator Carter Glass. Since the beginning of the war he has been a voluntary exile in Paris. Last week he promised allegiance to the Negrin Government, brought three other conservative Deputies with him as a sign of truce between the Popular Front and Centre Right Republicans...
...After my examination of the wreckage I have no hesitation in saying this was the most stupid and most brutal act of modern warfare. Great Red Cross characters were painted across the roof giving the name of the hospital. One hundred and fifty patients were killed, 200 medical staff servants and others, to a total of over 500 casualties...
...voted Socialist four short years ago are very much alive today and most of them have merged with the radicals of the Nazi Party who have always had such slogans as ''Labor Creates Capital." German wits long ago compared radical Nazis to beefsteak: "brown outside, red inside." In the hierarchy of the State one of the most potent radical Nazi leaders is Dr. Ley who keeps on repeating his famed postulate...
...considered so noteworthy that he sent a report of it all the way to England, where it was published in the issue of Nature which came back to the U. S. last week. Dr. Link had found a plant hormone called heteroauxin, previously found elsewhere, in the nodules of red kidney beans. When applied to the bean roots, a paste containing the hormone caused bending, coiling, vertical retardation of root growth, lateral acceleration of root growth, local increase in thickness of the root...
...season, every day from 7:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. to stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that fly over are ordinary broad-winged hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, eastern red-tailed hawks. Among thousands, however, are the rare golden eagles, turkey vultures, bald eagles, an occasional gyrfalcon flying down from Greenland...