Word: lockstepping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a high-school civics book: "Dictatorship . . . makes much of national unity. . . . Convicts doing the lockstep in a prison yard are a perfect example of unity, but we do not envy them. . . . Hitler and Mussolini . . . talk much of the virtues which fascism fosters. . . . But fascism has no monopoly of courage and sacrifice...
...camps where an appalling number of bastards are conceived. To repopulate the countryside thousands of city Germans have been shoved off in "Labor Service" to farm or build and beautify Europe's best motor and strategic roads. Art, Literature, Education, Stage, Cinema and the Press are in Nazi lockstep...
Because they objected to "lockstep" education, Arthur Smart and his wife Mary, of Vineland, N. J., would not send their children to public school. Mrs. Smart taught small Arthur, 9, and Elizabeth, 7, while Citizen Smart looked on in approval. Last month local school officials took steps to compel them to send the children to school (TIME, May 2). Much to their relish, the Smarts were interviewed and photographed by metropolitan newshawks. Last week they were again in the news. The time had come for Mrs. Smart to prove publicly her fitness to teach...
...reforms," such as road building, which appealed to his soldier sense. Himself accustomed to military discipline since he joined the Army as a stripling of 14, he could never understand why it was not good for all Spain to be disciplined, why the press should not march in lockstep with the State...