Word: birthright
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...began in 1880. But Parliament was swamped with protests. An opposition pamphlet painted the lurid picture: "Dover taken, the garrison butchered, the tunnel vomiting men of all arms, London invaded, England conquered." Britain's most respected Old Soldier, Baron Wolseley, rumbled: "Surely John Bull will not endanger his birthright, his liberty, his property simply in order that men and women may cross between England and France without running the risk of seasickness." Digging was stopped, but not the talk...
...into the decade of the 19605, the economists see a population growth for the U.S. that will push the number of Americans past the 200 million mark by 1970, a population so much in need of homes, clothes, autos and all the other things that Americans expect as their birthright that the U.S. will be ripe for a $700 billion economy in ten years...
...engaged in a battle for our laws and courts, for the preservation of our freedom and way of life . . . We should have the backbone to stand against any tyranny, whether of some individual willing to sell our birthright for a mess of political pottage on the national level, or the reformers that would make us over according to the mess they have made for themselves, including the board of sociology garbed in judicial robes and dishing out the precedents of Gunnar Myrdal...
...activities are temporarily in abeyance; but perhaps there is nothing in the lines given her that can be so acted. At any rate, she makes it completely credible that, though Tanner regards marriage as "apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat," he should finally agree to transgress his deepest instincts in order to marry...
...obvious effort, he joins in a conversation, only to relapse into silence. At last the agreement is ready, for signature. The four statesmen sign. Three look satisfied that they have done the right thing. But Hitler scratches his signature as if he were being asked to sign away his birthright." At the last moment fate tried feebly to avert the inevitable: the signing was delayed "when it was discovered that the pompous inkstand contained...