Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people's flag is deepest red, It's shrouded oft our martyred dead, And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, Their heart's blood dyed its very fold...
From 1870 to 1940, while the general population was increasing three-fold, the enrollment of high schools was being multiplied by about ninety times as a result of the movement toward universal education begun in a few states before the middle of the last century by Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and culminating at the end of the century in free public education in every state and free secondary education in most...
...drop away tactfully. But the London Poles had always been stiff-necked. Perhaps it was political despair, perhaps it was the habit of authority, perhaps it was old-fashioned love of country, which new-fashioned love of class was subtly supplanting through Europe, but the defeated government refused to fold up quietly. It denied that the free elections promised soon by the Warsaw Government would be free in a country governed behind a curtain of secrecy. It denied that the Warsaw Government represented a majority of the Poles in Poland. It called upon all Poles in the armed forces outside...
...Valle of the ist Marine Division summed it up: "The enemy is beginning to fold up through surrenders, suicides and disorganization. . . . Now it could take from two days to two weeks to take the island. It all depends on how lucky...
Finally rousing himself resolutely, he decided that this lost soul must be educated, and brought back into the fold. He strode to the book-case and pulled down his copy of Jack Frost's "Harvard and Cambridge Sketch Book." After a few moments spent thumbing through the pages, he located the one he sought...