Word: gantlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After flying down to Rio, and running a gantlet of unhurried customs men, they sprawled on curving Copacabana Beach, drank mild guarana in the cafés, and stared at the jungled hillsides, splashed with the purple bloom of the quaresma, the "tree of Lent...
...foot the Catholic faithful followed. A gantlet of Marxists thundered their anthem...
...potato grower in Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...
...recaptured Kirovograd, a woman reverently kissed a Red tank caterpillar. Far to the north, in a small village in White Russia, villagers caught a Nazi setting buildings afire, dragged him to a bleak cemetery, made him run the gantlet. Too late to strike her blow, an old, hobbling woman, dragging a heavy yoke, screamed: "Revive him, revive him! I must pay him back for my man he killed, for my house he burned." When a bucketful of ice water revived the Nazi, she brained...
...pinches: "What people want is sympathetic attention." Jack gives his people attention by sympathetic personal chats ending with a pat on the back. There are no pats for absentees or latecomers. Jack & Heintz has no time clocks. Late workers are given a hell-raising reception, have to run the gantlet of their fellow workers' resounding wolf call. Result: workers are almost always on time, almost never absentees...