Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Boy. For months FBI agents toiled at matching these vague swatches of information against the yard goods in their files. They sifted through the affairs of more than a thousand suspected Communist agents. Then, a search of New York grand jury records produced a clue -a piece of testimony by Vassar Graduate Elizabeth Bentley, the reformed Communist courier. Jacob Golos, onetime Soviet spymaster in the U.S., who had been Miss Bentley's lover, once introduced her to a Philadelphia chemist named Harry Gold and had described him as a reliable link in the transmission system...
...angrily refused to believe that Harry Gold could possibly have led a double life. But when they went to see him, Harry said: "I've done something that can't be rubbed off." Why had Harry Gold done it? He could only mutter a line which a thousand sinners had muttered before: "I must have been crazy...
Simultaneously, Coombs announced that more than a thousand caps and gowns have been reserved by seniors at J. August and the Coop. Both stores are still taking orders...
...Prepared." The process of corruption begins early. Nine hundred thousand children between the ages of six and 14 are enrolled in the Junge Pioniere (Young Pioneers), the FDJ "cubs." Most of them are drawn in by subtle threats that they will not be promoted in school, by pressure on parents, and by channeling the natural idealism of the young to party purposes...
Congratulations are due to these men and their hard-hitting action. At the cost of only a few thousand dollars, they have saved their good name, and the name of the City of Cambridge...