Word: carting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of the main street, painted in huge letters on the rough pavement, was the message: "Vote for the American Republic-Viva VAmerica." A peasant swung his oxcart violently to one side. Said he: "We don't want these wheels going over those words." The wheels of his cart had been salvaged from a German gun carriage...
...Nice, the Virgin passed through a shower of mimosa, roses and carnations. In Antibes, barefoot sailors escorted her to the parish church. Everywhere provincial roads resounded with the prayers of kneeling suppliants: "Virgin, our hope, save France. . . ." And now, borne forward on a peasant's cart by sweating seminarists, the Virgin of Boulogne came to the Red Belt barricades...
Arise! Awake! From red Thiais the road led on to red Charenton. The Virgin faced it, undaunted and yet unscarred. But the police, now alarmed and mobilized in strength, would not face it. They snatched the Virgin from her cart, dumped her on a truck, whisked her at 40 miles an hour to the Charenton church...
These three turned the ideas of old Major (he had died) into a complete system of thought called Animalism. Their most faithful converts were two cart horses, Boxer and Clover. These two had a hard time thinking anything out for themselves. But they absorbed everything the pigs taught them and passed it on to the other animals in simple form...
...John the Orangeman," with his donkey cart, was another well-known figure of bygone years. It was he who translated the University's "Veritas" as "ter Hell wid Yale." Colonel Charles R. Apted, chief of the Yard police, was the victim of many a student prank, but was noted for his ability in saving as well as seizing...