Word: set
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage seemed set for another Communist show trial. In the dock sat the accused, ready to plead guilty and to confess. On the courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...
...when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like those in France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) walked...
...life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory, his Duguay was limping badly as she sailed southward...
...Ernest William Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, England, seems to believe that Anglican sensibilities should be shaken well at regular intervals. Last week, speaking before the Birmingham Rotary Club, he set off another of his Episcopal cannon crackers. Sterilization of "the unfit" and the killing of "defective" babies, he said, would be a fine thing for Britain...
Sweet Charity. Last week Reporter Browning's findings-a set of surprises for herself, Editor Maloney and presumably for the Trib's readers-were blazoned across the Trib's front page and on its circulation trucks. The nice-Nellie promotion men had a tough problem of finding a euphemism for the harlot Norma Browning had pretended to be, had toyed with "wayward woman," finally settled on "woman outcast...