Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happen if two American flyers landed in Russia, they beamed and frankly declared: "The Russians would make their stay happy and make big propaganda around them." At one of their first stops in Richmond-the John Marshall Hotel-they announced that they were "hungry as dogs" and gobbled up free steak, vegetables and cream pie with unabashed enthusiasm...
They stared shrewdly around a Richmond department store while crowds, which had followed them in, stared curiously back. They were offered a free shirt apiece, unerringly picked the most expensive ones in the showcase. At the camera counter they announced, this time a little apologetically, that they thought the Germans made better photographic equipment than the Americans. Pirogov was openly enthusiastic at the sight of pretty models parading past in expensive dresses, but Barsov was doubtful...
...Free from Pressure? Five weeks later, a different Joseph Mindszenty sat in court.***** He was dressed in black, like an ordinary priest. Before the trial opened, the presiding judge read a letter from the accused to the Minister of Justice...
...wish to lessen the present tension," Mindszenty had written. "I voluntarily admit that, in principle, I committed the acts in the indictment . . . After 35 days of constant meditation ... I consider that an agreement between church and state is necessary ... I hereby willingly declare-free from pressure, of course-that I am willing to withdraw from the exercise of my duties for a time...
...spiritual Cardinal Mindszenty in his martyrdom of mind and body that we can fortify by our prayers, that in his soul he may know that in another part of the world other men are holding high God's torch of justice . . . And in our own dear land each free man ... must protect and fight to keep his own integrity of conscience, his own God-given freedoms ... to save America and the rest of the democratic, God-loving world from trickery, torturings, disasters and defeat...