Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accidentally jarred. The Red press screamed "Murderers!" at the government. In Rome a mob of sweating, cursing workers hurled cobblestones at grey-clad mobile police, who fired into the air and swung their clubs in earnest. The mobs that poured into the streets frightened the elegant aristocracy and the free-spending tourists in the Via Vittorio Veneto; these gentry, knowing they might be targets for Communist vengeance, retreated to their select caverns of safety, the cool bars of the Excelsior and Ambasciatori Hotels. There waiters whisked tables and chairs from the sidewalk cafés and clanged down the corrugated...
...might well have put County Donegal up in arms and stained the waters of Lough Swilly pink with men's blood. Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire. "We want a navy snack," says they, marching into the Green Bay at Buncrana. "We want a typical navy snack, with plenty of steak and chips and don't say nothin' to anyone about the dook." Then off they go to the local for a pint apiece...
...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...
...series of lectures at Harvard in 1940 he tried to explain what he means: "The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free . . . The Dionysian elements which set the imagination of the artist in motion . . . must be properly subjugated before they intoxicate us, and must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands...
...revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after the flood (1900). Then she compresses the harrowing scene into six words: "We've burned over...