Word: pitchforked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist symbol of the party in New York City (TIME, Aug. 25) shows what is locally called a dung fork or manure fork rather than a "pitchfork" as TIME delicately calls it. Herewith a Sears, Roebuck clipping for authority...
...Communist Party of New York city adopted a new campaign symbol: instead of the famed, crescent-shaped hammer & sickle of the Red banner, a sledge hammer and pitchfork in the shape...
Reason: a State law forbids the use of a foreign government's insignia as a party emblem, and the hammer and pitchfork "stand for the same thing" as the hammer & sickle: labor's unity...
With the Vicar's stirrup pump, a pitchfork and a spade
...nothing it asked for, but none of its officials resigned. The Prime Minister made them hang on by stating categorically that it would be unpatriotic to do so. Director-General Monckton summed up their feelings: "If the powers that be want us to attack a tank with a pitchfork, we'll go to it. But don't start telling us our pitchforks are tanks, because we know the difference...