Word: herd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When young Dr. Adolf Meyer arrived in the U. S. from his native Switzerland almost 50 years ago, it was common practice to herd insane patients together like hopeless criminals...
...Herd Combat. Not on the Allied program was engagement of the German armored herds by herds of Allied tanks. Defensive warfare of position called for artillery replies to tank offensives. But such was the Germans' speed that the French command was forced to admit a war of maneuver had begun. When German Panzertruppen crossed the Albert...
...their professors. In Nanking, 1,086 students of National Central University, four times bombed, loaded boats with their books, laboratory equipment and machines from their shops, set out up the Yangtze. They arrived at Chungking, 1,000 miles away, after 43 days. (Their agricultural school's herd of blooded cattle, driven along the river banks, got there a year later.) More spectacular still was the migration of Canton's Sun Yat-sen University. Poling their sampans out of Canton just as Japanese entered it, Sun Yat-sen's students pushed ahead by night, hid in the rushes...
...Ring. The House hippodrome was the wildest show. Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, of Bonham, Tex., utterly lost control of his cageful of snarling Democrats, and Minority Leader Joe Martin, of North Attleboro, Mass., quietly turned loose his herd of trumpeting Republicans. Trampled in the confusion were the hopes of the Wild Men of the South to amend the Wage & Hour Act so drastically as to make it almost inoperative...
Back in 1936, when a few clever press agents were turning jazz into a commodity by calling it swing, a young Frenchman named Panassic wrote a book called Hot Jazz, which immediately caused a minor intellectual revolution in certain circles. Formerly, jazz had been for the common herd; now, with the exception of an isolated group of die-hards, the old snobbish attitude was thrown over, and the literati took record collecting and jazz criticism under their collective wing...