Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through all this, Mayor LaGuardia went smilingly about his business. He jeered at the three Irishmen (Boss Flynn of the Bronx, Boss Kelly of Brooklyn and O'Dwyer) who had patched together the Democratic ticket. Said The Hat: "It looks to me like a case of rape by acquiescence and consent, and a good time was enjoyed...
...fortnight ago there was a rape case involving two foreigners (not Americans). There were also incidents in which irritated G.I.s lashed out at staring, scolding crowds. Lately, street crowds have been spitting at and stoning Chinese girls found with Americans...
...Commissar in toto; he is idealistic enough to hope that the best of each can be joined: a "synthesis of . . . the saint [and] the revolutionary." From the Yogi he would take the values of contemplation, the "inner voice," and reject the "sinning by omission," the passivity that invites rape. From the Commissar he would take a planned, state-controlled economy ("the inevitable next step of historical evolution") and reject the ice-cold rationalism that forbids a man to love his country or value his immortal soul above the dictates of the state...
...week that it had been decided to create a camp for Germans "and members of the German ethnical group" in the former Warsaw ghetto. The camp would be "a place of isolation on which everybody would look with disgust, a place to house those who wanted to murder and rape the entire world, a camp for men who have no right to the name of man but should be called beasts...
...make him human. But he can remain so, the old crone tells him, only if Barbara stays faithful to him for a year after their marriage. On the last night of the year, the community,* at last awake to the boy's origin, compels Barbara to sin. (A rape scene that the censors knocked out of the play in Washington remains out on Broadway.) The boy becomes a witch again,.and Barbara dies...