Word: bayonet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ are asked to believe that any sums of money which may be pressed out of the Ruhr are to be sanctified and holy, that the coal mined by a half-starved and half-distracted miner at the point of a bayonet will bring peace, contentment, and happiness to some poor, much-to-be pitied inhabitant of the desolated districts of France. It will do nothing of the kind. It will carry with it inevitably a curse and penalties which will return to plague the French people precisely as the German people are today...
...Government, so the report runs, was on the verge of driving men to work at the point of the bayonet, for the skilled workmen are slipping back to the land, where they can find a living, at any rate. Lenin has intervened, enjoining them to work, not for the zest of it, but for the triumph of their Soviet system. "Grin and bear it" is the suggested refrain of his hopeless hymn, which anticipates the coming of the night when there will be no more work because there will be no money to pay the workers. "They cannot live without...
...forget that some of their best runners will never break a tape, their best golfers never tee off, their best polo players never lift a mallet. The runners made their last sprint in the smoke of the Somme, and the polo players died putting their final ounce behind a bayonet. Australasians who watched America win at Auckland must have thought of Wilding, the giant who played so smashingly at Forest Hills the summer of 1914 and a few months later was gone at Gallipoli. Not far from a million British died in the field; the battle dead of little Australia...