Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common efforts of the freedom-loving French do not succeed in bringing our country back into the camp of democracy and peace, if later our country should be dragged against its will into a war against the Soviet Union, and if the Soviet army, defending the cause of freedom and socialism, should be brought to pursue the aggressors onto our soil, could the workers and people of France have any other attitude toward the Soviet army than has been that of the peoples of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
Weasel words had burrowed into the syntax of this passage, but the implication was clear. A further statement from the Central Committee made it clearer: "The people of France place themselves resolutely, and in all circumstances, in the camp of the Soviet Union and her heroic army...
...Seek a Protector." Inside the camps in Russia's "classless" society, a strict class system developed. At the bottom were dokhodyagi, "persons who had lost resemblance to the human form ..." Next came the rabotyagi, "who had not yet lost their strength," the urki (criminals), finally the predurki, the camp aristocrats who worked in the administration. Though "sexual intercourse ... is a punishable offense, the conditions of life give a woman no choice but to seek a protector among the camp aristocracy...
...sophisticated" young man whose answer she had selected, she proved to be neither handsome nor vivacious nor blonde. She was thin, tired, brunette and nervous. But the young man was nervous too. Neither well-situated nor particularly sophisticated, he had just returned from five years in a Russian P.W. camp, had landed a lowly clerical...
Last week, the patient, 46, at work in a construction camp in Southern California, seemed to be enjoying his rough camp food...