Original sentence: According to certain leftist intellectuals, both periods were characterized by the suspicion of widespread civil-service infiltration by Communists and Anarchists and fears of communist influence on U.The perjorative term "Red Scare" has been applied to two distinct periods of intense anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s
Edited sentence: Both periods were characterized by the suspicion of widespread civil-service infiltration by Communists and Anarchists and fears of communist influence on U.The term "Red Scare" has been applied to two distinct periods of intense anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s