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"Few players have both the speed to steal bases and strength to hit home runs. But Sosa's record of having done it twice does not even stand in San Pedro, since Alfonso Soriano, born in sugar-mill barrio of Quisqueya, debuting in 2002 for the Yankees, did it four consecutive seasons."

"We can successfully defeat the Communist attempt to capture the US by fighting it…with a few 'dont's'…Don't let Communists infiltrate into our schools, churches and mosques molders of public opinion, the press, radio, and screen." J. Edgar Hoover

1953: The FBI conducts an 'internal security" investigation of Groucho Marx, the beloved host of popular quiz show You Bet Your Life.

-"DOES COMMUNISM TGEEATEN CHRISTIANITY?," by Dorothy Thompson in Look, January 20, 1948. "Here is the candid views of an expert who tackles a question vital to the spiritual welfare of mankind."

"JUNE 28, 1948: Yugoslavia's Communist Party, under Marshall Tito, is expelled from the Cominform, becoming the first Soviet satellite nation to break free of Moscow rule."

"OCTOBER 21-23, 1947: The Hollywood Ten… testify before HUAC. They repeatedly and, usually, belligerently cite the Fifth Amendment as they refuse to answer the question, 'Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?& on November 24, all of them are inducted for contempt of Congress, and then fired from jobs the next day."

"It is a strange and sad experience, for one who has lived through these 25 years as a Marxian Socialist, to see the Soviet regime drop overboard one by one every vestige of socialism, until now their is no hope left for a classless society in present-day Russia." Max Eastman

"What about the very first movies? My father saw a movie when he was little that he always remembered. It had a rocket going into the eye of the man in the moon." Hugo thought the movie would be a good place to begin his search for clues.

"It creates an image that Hugo recognized immediately. Shivers ran down his spine."

"A steam engine whistles its deafening shriek, which completely drowned out all other sounds of the station for a moment and made Hugo jump. As if always did. Hugo and Isabelle stared at each other until the owner of the café made them get up and leave. They parted without saying good-bye."

"She said she would try to help him get his notebook back. Isabelle had called him her friend."

"It read: Meet me at the booksellers' on the other side of the train station. That was all. But then Hugo turned the paper over. There was one more sentence:Your notebook wasn't burned."

"He could tell it wouldn't need to be wound for another day or two, so Hugo kept going, until all twenty-seven clocks in the station had been attended to, just the way his uncle had taught him."

"After the Palmer incident, the New York Times reported that the attack was 'plainly of Bolshevik or IWW origin.' The first Red Scare had begun to sweep the country."

"Napoleon ended his speech with a reminder of Boxer's two favorite maxims, 'I will work harder' and 'Comrade Napoleon is always right'- maxims, he said, which every animal would do well to adopt as his own."

"As his last act on earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death… By, evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them he was well on the way to recovery."

"In Beasts of England we expressed our longing for a better society in days to come. But that society has now been established. Clearly this song no longer has any purpose."

"We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily. Remember, comrades, there must be no alteration on our plans: they shall be carried out to the day. Forward, comrades! Long live the windmill! Long live Animal Farm."

"He repeated it a number of times, 'Tactics, comrades, tactics!' skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh. The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions."