Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, too, there was a battle. Into the lassitude of falling autumn leaves burst the garish colors of election posters, the shrill sounds of political hoodlumism. One night, when right-wing Socialist Matteo Matteotti tried to speak in a shabby Rome suburb, Communists attacked him and knocked him to the ground (he is the son of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist martyr killed by Mussolini's thugs in 1924, whom the Communists still treat as an idol). Another evening, Communists cornered a group of young Christian Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death...
France, their strength did not come from deserting Communists. Instead, it sprang from deserting rightists (Guglielmo Giannini's Qualunquists, et al.), attracted by the Christian Democrats'newly firm anti-Communist line. The "People's Bloc" of Communists, left-wing Socialists and assorted minor parties more than held its own with 208,000 votes...
Until recently, Duclos was supporting Thorez against the wing led by old André Marty, who favored a tough, out & out revolutionary line. Duclos saw the handwriting on the wall just in time. He asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from...
Manny Aguirre opened the scoring for the Crimson in the first period with an angle shot from his left wing position but Amherst tied the score up ten minutes later when Ben Stolsfus booted one in at the end of a long dash through the Varsity defense...
...minutes before the game ended. Walt Klausson tapped in the last Lord Jeff goal on a pass from Dick Donati, his agile Italian-born left wing...