Word: cart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since war's end the government had intended to lift the embargo (imposed in 1942 at President Roosevelt's request) as soon as it could be done without upsetting the butcher's cart. That day never came. First, the embargo had to be kept to insure a full domestic supply while heavy shipments went to Britain. When it looked as though the British shipments would taper off, there was always some technical reason for keeping the embargo a little longer...
...more than 11 quarts of chocolate beverage were removed from the cart in which Clark transports his stock in trade. He was inside only a moment, but the milk, case and all, was gone when he stepped back...
...five hours, as Gandhi's body was pulled through the streets of Delhi, Vallabhbhai Patel crouched on the funeral cart, his head bowed; not once did he raise it. Alongside, barefoot in the dust, walked Jawaharlal Nehru. Said Nehru: "I have a sense of utter shame...
Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, was a city of refuge last week. Into it from newly abandoned mission stations in Honan and. northern Hupeh provinces-by rail, truck, mule cart and often on foot-trekked American missionaries. They felt unable any longer to live and work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached...
...retrospect I see again my Superior calling me and saying: "Go with the mule cart to the village of X, where the missionary is ill." Before daybreak we start, a Chinese priest and a sick pupil from the school of the sisters...