Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a fresh tennis ball, Cress loses a little fuzz after each encounter with life, but goes on bouncing through another dozen escapades, all readable, if predictable. There is the schoolgirl crush on her piano teacher, a puppy-love phase with the spindly, spectacled whiz of the Latin class, the first cigarettes, first house parties, first pimples...
...Communists set out to identify and punish the rioters of the June uprising, to sniff out and crush every lingering trace of dissidence, and to discipline party members who were guilty of "capitulatory behavior." Strongman Ulbricht fired Wilhelm Zaisser, boss of the SSD (the Soviet zone security police), reinstated the backbreaking work norms, launched a clattering campaign against Western "spies" and "saboteurs." East German papers were crammed with lurid stories of arrests, trials, confessions and stern punishments. By last week, in the courts of cold-eyed Minister of Justice Hilde Benjamin, "the Red guillotine," some 320 sentences had been handed...
...Latife, the daughter of a Smyrna shipowner, but was soon divorced. In 1938, exhausted by periodic debauches and drinking bouts, undermined by diseases, he died. The timing was just right. Kemal Ataturk had held the Turks by the hand just long enough to help, not long enough to crush...
...secretly" in Sepah Square, but to vote no, one had to go to Baharestan. Government employees were let off work and in mobs descended on Sepah Square. So did other mobs assembled by the outlawed Tudeh Communist Party, which also would like to keep Parliament dissolved. In the happy crush, people did not have to show their identity cards or have their hands smeared with indelible ink. Many voted three or four times...
When a man gets a crush on Rita Hayworth, he is sometimes in danger of carrying the thing too far. Twice-married Crooner Dick Haymes, 34, was in trouble with the U.S. Immigration Department because he followed thrice-married Rita to Hawaii last May. Possible punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita...