Word: cower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spitzel [informers] will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than simply to cower and grovel...
...Dogs cower, flitter bats, and owls range...
...book begins in one of the awful periods in history when "the noble British nation seems to fall from its high estate, loses all trace of sense or purpose, and appears to cower from the menace of foreign peril, frothing pious platitudes while foemen forge their arms." It ends with his appointment as Prime Minister...
...Poverty brooded threatens and failures multiply," brooded Novelist-turned-Scenarist Rupert Hughes, in a thoughtful piece for Variety. "There is no laughter left. The whips of scorn make the naked flesh wince and the bruised pariah cower and slink. . . . These are cloudy days for the motion picture world. And it is a world. A new world. But, like other worlds, it revolves from night to day and back to night and back to day again and again...
...they answer not to thy call, walk alone, If they are afraid and cower mutely, facing the wall, O thou of evil luck, Open thy mind and speak out alone...