Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one spring morning in 1945, the Rev. Archie Mitchell and his 26-year-old wife rounded up five of their Sunday-school class, drove into the mountains near Bly, Ore. for a day's fishing. Luck was bad at first and Mitchell walked back for the car. Returning, he saw the rest of the party gathered in a semicircle, curiously examining a mysterious object they had discovered in the woods. The kids had stumbled upon one of the 9,000 balloon bombs launched from Japan against the U.S. West Coast...
...didn't know what it was," Mitchell said later, "but I shouted for them all to get back away from it and I started running toward them. When I was only about 40 yards from them there was a terrific explosion." Mrs. Mitchell and the five children were killed...
...Cleveland, A.F.L. President Bill Green had some news for his executive board: John L. Lewis, who had marched his United Mine Workers out of the A.F.L. twice, wanted to march them back in again. But his price was still the same as when he "disaffiliated" last time: the A.F.L. should, like him, refuse to comply with the Taft-Hartley Act. The A.F.L. board said no, thanks...
Referring to the three Western powers' obvious solidarity, Vishinsky cracked back: "It depends three times as much on you as it does...
...Back to Your Masters." Tempers on both sides turned ugly. Strikers, armed with crowbars and clubs, battled with the Red strikebreakers. At the Tempelhof station, Major General Pavel A. Kvashnin, Soviet transport chief, barely got away when strikers tried to rough him up amid cries of "Kill him! Hang the fat swine!" When strikers stormed the Schöneberg elevated station, Communist railway police inside unleashed four police dogs. When this did not stop the strikers, the police gave up and were escorted through the crowd, to shouts of "Go back to your Russian masters...