Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reward for devotion to the cause. He was put on the Communist Party payroll as a $15-a-week instructor. The Waldrons went their separate ways, Nora to go into show business, Amelia to work in a library. Frankie, seedy-looking and burning-eyed, with a shock of wild hair, went off to teach Marxist economy at a youth seminar at a Finnish community in Woodland, Wash...
...Washington, and border areas of Oregon and British Columbia, began to twitch. Seattle's 42-story L. C. Smith Tower and hundreds of lesser structures began to groan and sway. Automobiles waltzed crazily on highways. Bridges creaked. Chandeliers swung like pendulums. Dishes and bells set up a wild jangling. A million people simultaneously felt shallow-breathed fear...
International law and relations is probably the most general but most interesting section of the department, as for as the average sudent is concerned. Professor Wild leads the group as a lecturer here, giving an excellent fall term course in international law with a slightly less good follow-up in America's role in world politics...
Where Alexander Came From. When it became clear that economic pressure would not dislodge Tito, the Cominform decided on a more drastic strategy. The new base of operations against Tito's Yugoslavia was to be Macedonia, the wild, barren stretch of country which is distinguished in history chiefly for sending Alexander the Great into the world...
...north of Rome, but "Paisan's" decision involved active people, not figures on a chart. And the difference shows up in the relative emotional punch of the two pictures. "Command Decision" is no waste of time; it is often funny and occasionally penetrating. It is well above the usual wild-blue-yonder movie. But it has been sufficiently made-up and costumed until its insight has been submerged under a lot of carefully cleaned-and-pressed brass...