Word: creaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems of the day: the breakdown of the family. An increasing divorce rate and decreasing birth rate point to a breakdown in the family system. "Juvenal saw this happening," says Zimmerman, "when he wrote that the object of Roman men of the time was to make their neighbors' bedsprings creak." Seeing similar signs of breakdown today, the professor feels that the larger problem can be attacked best through an attempt to shore up the foundation of the family system upon which our society is based. Specifically, he proposes a national standardization of family law, in place of our present...
...omnipresent secret police and its informers, by intricate economic controls that make every Russian dependent on the Government for his livelihood, and by hope-hope for a better future, which never comes, but which beckons with each new Five-Year Plan from the disastrous present. But when these controls creak under the enormous task, purges are a summary corrective-at once a technique of dictatorship and a reflex of fear...
Freedom & Socialism. The complex machinery over which Morrison presides begins to creak-significantly-at the next step in the nationalization process. When socialist planning is translated into parliamentary program, it raises the key question: can socialism and democracy exist together...
...Germans fought back savagely with heavy coast-defense guns, field artillery and multiple-barreled Nebelwerfers, whose incendiary rocket projectiles sail through the air with an unearthly noise, described by N.Y. Timesman Harold Denny as "something like a titanic horse whinnying, or a gigantic aching creak...
Every evening in Washington, D.C. khaki-clad men, unsteady on their crutches, struggle up a hill leafy with June. Other wounded soldiers, in dark red trousers and jumpers over their pajamas, creak along in wheel chairs pushed by white-uniformed nurses. The slow parade's destination is the grey stone chapel of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. The wounded men go there to pray for the success of the invasion of Europe and for an early peace...