Word: sandbag
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Such application of outside pressure as this destroys the whole ideal of modern education. Presumably a man goes to college not to learn a certain number of facts but to acquire intellectual independence, the power of thinking for himself. If faculties carefully sandbag expressions of opinion which run counter to capitalist interest, they betray that freedom of thought which it is their function to inspire...
...flood had backed up even to the hotel. It had flung back the sandbag dikes, swept through the doors, put out the kitchen fires, was attacking the carpets of the foyer, had begun to drool into the dining-room...