Word: tresca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carlo Tresca, of whom it was said that the first word he learned in English was "guilty." In 1937 she dismayed her Socialist friends by joining the Communist Party, and her activity in strikes from coast to coast landed her in jail a dozen times. She began her longest prison term in 1955 when she was convicted with other U.S. Communist leaders un der the Smith Act on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the government and spent 28 months at the Women's Federal Reformatory at Alderson, W. Va. By then, Elizabeth was no longer a slim...