Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly not established the rule of law among the nations. Yet it had greatly strengthened a growing public morality between the nations. As Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate, pointed out before sailing: "The free nations of the world enter this year's meeting of the General Assembly stronger and more firmly united than at any time since the end of the war." True, the unity and purpose of the free (as opposed to the slave) nations had the extra-legal aspect of a vigilance committee; but there had been other times when public morality expressed through vigilantes had been...
...Before [Georgi] Dimitrov [of Bulgaria] stood up ... to make his courageous peroration [at the famed Reichstag fire trial], he knew of a secret arrangement between the GPU and the Gestapo that he would leave it a free...
They also set a grim front-page editorial that threatened the International Typographical Union with "full utilization of new typesetting processes. [We] feel that the monopolistic and illegal strangle hold of the I.T.U. on the nation's free press can be successfully broken...
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was on hand to watch two fillies carry his cerise & white diamonds in their maiden tests (they finished one & two); so was Warren Wright, whose Citation, Coaltown and Free America would all race in the 18-day meeting. Hidden in the crowd near the pari-mutuel betting windows, two Pinkerton agents ignored racing's big names and kept their eyes on the bald bookie in suede shoes...
...book purports to be the sobered recollections of Sara Monday, a kitchen maid who rises to country lady, only to sink at last to thievery and the lockup. "An ordinary country girl, neither pretty or plain" who takes a free & easy view of human foibles, including her own, she is obviously a 20th Century descendant of Moll Flanders. Like Moll, Sara discovers that when she lets her sentiment rule her shrewdness, she usually suffers...