Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between England and Ireland has seemed the "summum bonum". To Cromwell after the Irish had rejected (strange to say) the ideas he strove so eloquently to impress on them, it seemed that they were but devils and irreconcilable papists, and that it was his painful but obvious duty to crush them. Yet he was puzzled. So was William before Londonderry--and after. So have been many others, but always down the centuries will ring the names of those who have fought and thought for Ireland Spenser, his fine sensibilities hurt both by the brutality of the people...
...union miners, knowing this, insist that in the new wage contract due on the first of April, they at least retain the 1920 scale; and they are asking even a further increase. The president of the United Mine Workers of America claims that the operators are trying to crush the miners, and that they demand higher prices for coal using the strike as an excuse. He has consequently called a strike for the first of April and Gompers has offered the support of the American Federation of Labor...
...cannot crush the creative instincts of men. They are bound to get it in their pleasure or leisure hours, and it is a question whether they are going to get it by the cheap, false, artificial motion-picture, or through the more elevated medium of the drama...
...football team is making capital of the defeat by Centre College. They are working harder this week than ever before. The losing of the game is acting not as a poison to crush them, but as a tonic to spur them on. They have the goods with which to win against Princeton, provided the undergraduate body sends and follows the team to Tigertown with one thought--namely an expectancy to retrieve victory. W. H. TRUMBULL...
...same reasons for which Franklin might have been ejected from France when he went seeking financial aid and recognition for the United States of America? The arguments which yesterday were employed in defense of Liberty and Freedom are today pressed into the service of those who would crush them both...