Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parts of Brazil, the anti-Communist drive continued. The Government, in breaking up a strike against the Leopoldina Railway staged by $25 a month firemen, blamed the work stoppage on Communist "millionaire Luis Carlos Prestes." Brazilian democrats hoped that heavy-handed Dutra, in stamping out Communism, would not also crush democracy...
Representatives from hog districts, textile states, cattle regions, automobile centers, oil country, cotton belts and dairy lands logrolled pet peeves into law. In the crush, Connecticut's Herman P. Kopplemann offered an amendment of "sympathy to the American people," heard it voted down by a whacking majority...
...Covent Garden, London's Royal Opera House, which jitterbugging G.I.s used as a dance hall during the war, reopened with a gala performance of the Tchaikovsky ballet Sleeping Beauty. The King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Princesses arrived in their gleaming Daimlers. A photographer, kneeling in the crush, tugged at a trousered leg, begged: "Give us a break, will you, George." He was embarrassed when the King turned around...
...July 1861, a little bespectacled man with a Vandyke beard, a big nose, and wearing a white linen duster and a straw hat, hurried across the Long Bridge at Washington, D.C. on to the territory of a newly proclaimed nation, the Confederate States of America. He joined the crush of junketing Congressmen, society ladies in carriages and pleasure seekers who had jaunted out to see the Union Army trounce General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's Confederates at Bull Run. The little man in the linen duster was Mathew Brady, a popular portrait photographer of Washington and Manhattan...
...have Pierced the occult, I have Pennatrated the future," proclaimed the Sage of the Age. "I say Swegan Cowen the Elis, LeBartsity will crush the Faberites, no need to be scared O'Leary of that Yale team, we Foster no pessimism here. These pusillanimous petrels who say that the Eli-Scanelliminate our team. Overlock the facts. 'Allen all,' they say "They'll probably put us through the Miller knock us higher than the Miellke Way. We've been playing in Fritts and starts all season.' 'GOdell,' I tell them, 'I still have Hoopes.'" He started to Walkerway...