Word: gantlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What would she do? To try to run that Allied gantlet would be suicide. Spee had had time to make herself seaworthy, but not battleworthy. A rumor got around that Captain Langsdorff would slip her across the Plata's mouth to Buenos Aires, there perhaps to intern...
...train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand in the flames, salvaged only one 500-ruble note. When he was captured and was told to run a gantlet of soldiers swinging riding crops, he walked through, head high, holding a book under his arm. Last week this man was trading in empires...
There is a certain amount of deplorable lynching in our own Southland, but every intelligent American vigorously condemns this practice. Yet, bad as this is, the number of deaths resulting from lynching do not amount to more than 25 per year. In Hitlerland, they have a "sport" known as Gantlet Running, (TIME, Dec. 5th) where 62 innocent people were tortured and twelve killed in one week, the figure running into thousands each year...
...prosperous German Jews were forced to run a bloody gantlet at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was reported last week in the Liberal News Chronicle of London. Two long ranks of Adolf Hitler's personal Schutzstaffel formed the gantlet, down which the 62 Jews were forced to run. "As they approached between the ranks, a hail of blows fell on them," said the News Chronicle. "As they fell, the Jews were beaten further. The orgy lasted half an hour. . . . Twelve of the 62 were dead, with skulls smashed. All the others were unconscious, some with eyes out and faces flattened in. ... Police...
...hours later in London's Paddington station, the newlyweds ran a gantlet of the press. Their taxi was followed into Hyde Park by cabs full of newshawks, shouting questions. Finally the Secretary of the Interior stopped his cab, got out, stormed: "Are these newspaper men's manners...