Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shriners' annual conventions are one noisy manifestation of a quiet and widespread U.S. phenomenon. Fraternal societies, which dwindled during the depression and war, have flourished anew. This year they occupy a good deal of the leisure time of almost a quarter of the country's adult population...
...Obviously, it would be ridiculous for anyone to be loyal to those people who do him harm and wish him evil. Such people are his enemies. Even animals recognize their enemies and make war on them or at least defend themselves...
...therefore, being sound of mind, wind, and limb, having at least as much sense as an animal, do hereby declare war on my enemies, and ... I will fight them every step of the way until we achieve the equality as American citizens which is guaranteed by our Constitution...
...Understand?" Beside the Anzio beachhead, war-ruined Genzano calls itself "Little Stalingrad," takes pride in supplying table wines to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church...
...Bari, a struggling blacksmith, Angelo Pantoso, fretted: "I believe in God. God protected me at war, but when I came back home, only the Communist Party explained the cause of my poverty. Now there is a storm in my mind...