Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taught the gospel to the young at a "labor school." He used gullible university professors to drum up recruits among their students. He threw parties to recruit young men for the war in Spain. After the youths had had a quantity of Dennis' liquor and a good dose of his oratory, their duty became plain. He arranged their passports and sent them packing, full of zeal. For Dennis, no chance for conquest was to be neglected. One of his followers, pretty, brown-haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church...
...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...
Sugar? The 30-page program which last week arrived at the door of every Labor Party bigwig was entitled Labor Believes in Britain. One wag recalled Carlyle's comment to a young lady who declared that she had accepted the Universe: "By God, Madam, you'd better!" A lot of work had gone into its cherry-red, pink-striped covers. For over a year, an army of party researchers had dredged up basic facts. Recently, during a nice weekend on the Isle of Wight, the 27-man Labor Party executive, sparked by Morrison, sifted the data and started...
...ordering pisco Italia, which has a heady, perfumed bouquet, is labeled by fellow drinkers as a little short in the masculine virtues. The heavy, sweet flavor of pisco moscatel (distilled from muscatel wine) is for the unsophisticated drinker. The young blade disappointed in love seeks forgetfulness in eight or ten straight shots of cherry-flavored pisco. The pisco connoisseur drinks the high-powered Moquegua, distilled from the grapes of the dry, sandy soil of southern Peru...