Word: reds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Onofrio Cicatiello, a streetcar motorman, raged: "We will never allow Catholic flags to follow the hearse. We don't want anything more to do with those bigots." The Catholic Coronas stood up for their rights. As a compromise, two lines of mourners followed the hearse, one carrying red flags, the other with religious banners. Said a spectator: "I don't know what our neighbor Angelo would think if he were alive. But never have I seen a funeral with better color...
...Neapolitan custom that, on the first Monday after burial, relatives and close friends of the deceased return to the grave and deck it with flowers. On that day, Cicatiellos bearing red flowers and Coronas bearing white flowers appeared at the cemetery. This time, antagonism boiled over and there was a sharp pitched battle...
...from and support Soviet Russia!" Peiping recently staged a gigantic Soviet exhibition "to introduce systematically the great socialist construction of the U.S.S.R." Madame Sun's presence and her exhortation for Chinese and Russians to march ahead as "comrades-in-arms" topped the propaganda campaign. For her labors, the Red press hailed her as "the Exalted Widow...
...leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...
Suckle a Bird. Stimulated by a thrashing from her master, Tituba quickly confessed to witchcraft and spun a richly embroidered tale that held Salem spellbound. Red cats and red rats had come to her one by one and said, "Serve me." Though as an earthly creature she could not read, she had in her spectral phase seen nine Salem names in the devil's book...