Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survivors of the British resistance movement were in their places. Aneurin Bevan, bearing the marks of torture [he had been captured while leading the famous attempt to rescue Winston Churchill from the death cell at Brixton Prison], had come back from the Welsh hills. . . . Megan Lloyd George [daughter of David Lloyd George], La Pasionaria of the British resistance movement . . . was in her place, and by her side sat the aged Lord Winterton, who had organized and conducted the resistance movement among the ruins of London for three years...
...President William Green (whose A.F. of L. has 6,807,000 members) this was just more big talk from the erring son. Green replied stiffly and sternly to Murray: "There is room for only one united labor movement in our country...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's generalship looked good. Using every possible means of deception and concealment, he had massed a formidable attacking force in the hills and woods. Allied air reconnaissance had reported some movement and concentrations there, but headquarters had not fully evaluated the enemy's real strength and intentions. Rundstedt had achieved tactical and strategic surprise...
...Lord Templewood was apparently a wiser man. He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo. His long-silent Lordship testified: "I had the Gestapo living in the next house looking over a wall watching every movement I made and constantly trying to suborn my domestic staff. . . . I saw what was more sinister-how the Gestapo would seize some man or woman in Spanish territory and take them over the frontier to death or torture in Germany or one of the occupied countries." The German poison had succeeded...
...movement was born on Dec. 21, 1844, when 28 shabbily dressed flannel weavers met in a warehouse on Toad Lane, Rochdale, Lancashire. They put in about $5 each so that they could buy candles, sugar, etc., in larger quantities, thus get them cheaper. Now there arc 143,000,000 members of 810,000 cooperative societies throughout the world...