Word: bedsheet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War II: Volunteered for combat duty as an air-force lieutenant (navigator), fled France after the Nazi victory, was caught in Morocco and sentenced by Vichy to six years in prison for "dese-tion," but made a hacksaw-and-bedsheet escape to the underground and then to the De Gaulle forces in England. Made bombing raids over France and Germany...
...newspaper had fixed its disapproving glance on a Halloween rag at the University of Toronto in which undergraduates staged a mock lynching and burned U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in effigy. Shrouded in bedsheet hoods, hundreds of students swarmed across the campus chanting, "Burn McCarthy!" and "Down with Joe!" After the dummy guest of honor had been hanged from a scaffold and put to the torch, speakers denounced McCarthy's "terror tactics." An outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News...
...Rahway, the convicts, leaderless and disorganized, held on. But the end was foreshadowed by another bedsheet hung from a window. It bore a plaintive, one-word message: "Water...