Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the people, the beasts of the world needed help in this worst of postwar winters, but they were not all friendless. Some beasts set out to help themselves. In Britain, Lincolnshire crows, hard put to find fodder under the heavy snows, were attacking sheep; one herder last week reported three sheep killed by the raiders. In the U.S., a huckster's horse with a will of his own staged a sit-down strike smack in the middle of a busy Baltimore street...
...angry editorial, the nearby Hudson Dispatch declared that a "friendless, helpless stranger" had been jailed for a very poor reason: withholding her identity. Manhattan papers took up the cry. Attorney James A. Major of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that she be given a new trial. Offers of money, clothes and jobs poured in. The clamor got too loud for the sensitive ears of judge and prosecutor...
...rapidly losing her friends in the West and thereby inexorably reducing her chances for any real understanding with the United States, Great Britain, and France. If Russia is sincerely desirous of world peace, but continues in her present policy of confusion and mystory, she will not only find herself friendless, but faced with a world in which the men of good will have joined forces with Winston Churchill and William C. Bullitt...
...Friendless Fielder. He was still as fresh and almost as free with the profanity as ever. All the "mean things" the writers used to say about him had been true. As a gangling rookie with the San Diego Padres back in 1936, he was perhaps the worst outfielder ever to wear a glove. When the fans got mad at him for letting a grounder roll between his legs, he spent the rest of the afternoon talking back to the bleachers -and missing more flies...
...Nisei were not friendless on the Pacific Coast-many openly welcomed them and hundreds deplored acts of violence. In Woodinville, Wash., Kametaro Funai, just out of a relocation camp, ran up against the manpower shortage. Promptly, some University of Washington students came out to help him on his farm...