Word: pitchfork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern states immediately began returning to the "Black Codes," pre-14th turning to the "Black Codes" Amendment laws designed to keep the Negro in a status not far removed from slavery. There came to power in the South politicians such as "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, governor and later Senator from South Carolina, who publicly proclaimed that the Negro was biologically inferior to the white man. When "inoculated with the virus of equality," said Tillman, the Negro became "a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour...
Farmer Bading went to work on the neighbors with a will. He clobbered the postman with a shovel, yelling "At last I have you, you witch!" He assaulted startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back...
Warleggon soon decided that the new rector was, to say the least, standoffish. He refused to shake hands with his parishioners, explaining that he was offended by the old Cornish custom of spitting in the palms before hefting a pitchfork. He banned the traditional whist party in the parish house. "A whist drive," he said, "is an amusement, and amusements come from hell." He refused to conduct a Sunday school, because Sunday schools are unmentioned in the Bible. He wanted to get rid of the venerable church organ, since he disliked organ music-"a gabbled profanity" he called...
...implication, the Commodity Credit Corporation never has furnished storage to farmers-it hadn't before and it has not since; 4) the Commodity Credit Corporation was selling its own grain bins as surplus at the very moment the Democrat candidate accused the Republicans of having 'stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back.' Now, who actually stuck that pitchfork in your back? It was none other than the Democrat Administration itself...
...yellow and black respectively). In the hands of Milton and Goethe, he became successively a tragic hero and a debonair, reasonable-seeming man of the world. At 20th century masquerade parties and in subway headache ads, the Devil generally wears a red union suit and wields a large pitchfork...