Word: unison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berliners seeking "Strength through Joy" may harden their muscles in a Rugby football scrum, or do push-ups in unison, but may no longer cycle, climb mountains, or ski in organized groups...
...largest) against Communists, fascists and students who tried to demonstrate in Lima's Plaza Universitaria against the Government's new press law. Outnumbering the hardy demonstrators by 20,000 to 200, the Apristas waved white handkerchiefs, drowned out the anti-Government orators by clapping in rhythmic unison (two short, one long). Then in perfectly formed ranks their columns closed in. They seized the opposition's banners, fought with fists and sticks. Guns popped. After the police finally cleared the Plaza, two were dead, more than a hundred wounded...
Meanwhile, Author Hauser hopes that he and "the best German patriots" may somehow have a chance to work on the land in socialist unison toward "the resurrection of the great spiritual values-the values of Christianity, the values of abnegation and of discipline which once created Prussia...
...staunch, God-fearing people of the countryside wrote a letter to Harry Truman. Then they turned elsewhere. A hundred of them trooped into the church, prayed for Bobby Colby and spoke the 40th Psalm in unison: "For innumerable evils have compassed me about. . . . They are more than the hairs of my head. . . . O Lord, make haste to help...
...Working in complete unison," MacArthur said, "the three services [ground, sea and air] inflicted the greatest disaster ever sustained by Japanese arms." To the enemy, this disaster meant the practical annihilation of 23 divisions ("or equivalents")-450,000 men, of whom 409,261 were reported killed, 9,774 prisoners. It meant also that Japan had been cut off from her conquests in Malaysia. It meant the "collapse of the enemy's imperial concept of a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere...