Word: gracelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...urging a tough Communist line pushed their senior member, Andre Marty. But though Marty is a reliable fanatic, he is an inflexible fool save in his specialty: barricade-building and street fighting. Auguste Lecoeur, one of the party's four secretaries, emerged as the compromise choice. Though a graceless militant, he was Thorez' protege and, like Thorez, had come up through mine-union politics. But the last word, of course, was Moscow...