Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first instance came in the famed Chicago garmentworkers' strike of 1910. Until then Sidney Hillman had been just an $8-a-week pants cutter. Born in Lithuania, son of a mill owner, grandson of a rabbi, he had studied Russian, absorbed some revolutionary doctrines, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1907, aged...
...dawn on D-day Saipan looked like a low-lying prehistoric monster whose high, rising spine was Mt. Tapotchau. Already the sugar-mill town of Charan Kanoa was afire or smoking at several points and there was some smoke rising from Garapan from the bombing and shelling of the previous two days. At 5:45 the big guns began-gunfire from 5-inch destroyer to 16-inch battleship shells. Tinian Island, five miles south of Saipan, got its share of shells against artillery emplacements and other targets...
...That German is no rookie; he is very likely the last survivor of his original squad. There may be only a handful like him in his company, but he's been through the mill and has learned his business while he was being completely transformed into what you see in the picture. Look at his gear: it's worn (and obviously this isn't a posed picture), but it's all there and in good shape. A 'demoralized' soldier gets rid of his equipment the first thing. (You should have seen the Eyties...
...like Don Whitehead and Clark Lee [I.N.S.], who had been through the mill so long and so boldly, began to get nerves. And frankly I was the worst of the lot, and continued to be. I began having terrible periods of depression and often would dream hideous dreams about it. All the time fear lay blackly deep upon your consciousness. It bore down on your heart like an all-consuming weight. People would talk to you, and you wouldn't hear what they were saying...
Such was the glittering surface. Beneath, the country crawled with rumors of many-hued discontent. In a wave of repression, police last week arrested conservative former Finance Minister Federico Pinedo, other prominent citizens, scores of so-called "Communists." Soldiers invaded the great Grafa textile mill, seized 500 men & women workers, let most of them go after a warning. Some Argentines thought that the militarists were heading off a popular demonstration planned for May 25, National Independence Day. But the Government gave no explanation. The surface of Argentine life went brightly smooth again...