Word: unmaskings
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...many military commanders . . . beginning literally at the company and battalion commander level and extending to the higher military centers [brought] grievous consequences . . . Large scale repression undermined military discipline because for several years officers of all ranks and even soldiers in the party and Komsomol cells were taught to 'unmask' their superiors as hidden enemies . . . During this time the cadre of leaders who had gained military experience in Spain and in the Far East was almost completely wiped...
...case of Richard Nixon, the Post has attacked when the Democrats were in power and again after the Republicans took over. The Post first criticized Nixon when he was helping to unmask Traitor Alger Hiss. Publisher Graham contends that "all men of good will," including the men of the Post, were embarrassed by the Hiss case. The paper sprang to Hiss's defense, switched later when the evidence piled up against him. In the Post's more recent anti-Nixon efforts, largely aimed at Nixon's use of the subversion issue as a political weapon, Graham...
...close friend, Governor Dan Mc-Carty, died in office. Under the state constitution, he was succeeded by the President of the Senate, one Charley Johns, a former railroad conductor, who as a legislator had voted to put the brakes on improving educational standards and against a law to unmask the Ku Klux Klan. Roy Collins ran against Johns for the final unexpired two years of McCarty's term. Collins took his stand against what he called the "muster of the vultures." Despite Johns's lavish promises of road construction projects in key vote areas, Collins beat...
...sardines, eau de cologne, biscuits, marmalade, bananas, oranges, soap and chocolate cake. He was still puzzling one day when the baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been robbed! Our jewels and silver are missing!" It did not take the Baron de Roquette-Buisson long to unmask the culprit. Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican...
...present in a Babel of art ... The clamor caused by Matisse decorating the chapel of Vence has not yet died down . . . Chagall would like to paint a Catholic chapel . . . and Picasso has been toying with the idea of decorating a Communist chapel-... It is high time to unmask the pretenses of this false art which simply consists of rejecting the human and denying the divine...