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Indeed, it was harder than it had been before, just as it had been harder for us to say good-by the second time. But we thought less often of the strangeness of it. We were really growing used to the war, and it was less the monstrous, strange thing than it had been in our daily lives. War had become our daily life and portion in Britain. All who were not slackers were doing their part every one.
A sweated wage, long hours, industrial conscription, prohibition of strikes, prison for slackers, diminution of the already insufficient rations in factories where the production falls below what the authorities expect, an army of spies ready to report any tendency to political disaffection and to procure imprisonment for its promoters this is the reality of a system which still professes to govern in the name of the proletariat.
They seemed such slackers." "I'm afraid that's the failing of the school just now," agreed Mr Seymour. "They don't play themselves out. They don't put just that last ounce into their work which makes all the difference." Clowes thought of saying that, to judge by appearances, they did not put in even the first ounce; but refrained.
What it connotes is that our enemies have no strikes, no conscientious objectors, no fiddling with obligatory service, industrial or military. Each man is at his country's beck and call. Germany is free from strikers, slackers and such-like anti-social types. In Russia the want of working men is felt keenly. It is one of the main elements of the sharp rise of prices there.
"I am going to bed to dream of that. It is a pity some of the rest of us childless slackers had not done as well as Josephine. She took her risk. She was lucky." "She did," replied the Nurse, "but she did not realize anything of that. She was too simple, too unanalytic." "I wonder?" said the Critic. "You need not, I know." Her eyes fell on the Lawyer, and she caught a laugh in his eye.
"Oh, stop!" she broke out desperately. "Don't start all over again " "Look alive, you two slackers," shouted Roy, from the far corner of the road. "I'm responsible for keeping the team together." "Coming!" called Tara, and turned on Dyán a final glance of appeal. "I'm sorry from the bottom of my heart. I can't say more." And setting the pace, she hurried forward.
Carter, may have room for slackers we have not. We have a record and a reputation of which we are proud. You are in your second year. How old are you?" A faint whisper said, "Nineteen." The Dean started. "Nineteen! Oh, dear me, dear me! this is worse than I thought far worse. I am afraid, Mr. Carter, I shall have to write to your father." Guttural with emotion, Mr.
The court calendars were now crowded with "espionage" cases; pacifist clergymen who had tried to preach sermons, and labor leaders who bad tried to call strikes; members of the Anti-conscription League and their pupils, the draft-dodgers and slackers; Anarchists and Communists and Quakers, I. W. Ws., and Socialists and "Russellites."
"I suppose there are slackers, lots of them, but so far I haven't met a boy who wasn't desperate at being given a 'safe berth' away from the firing line and danger. "It never seems to enter their minds to be thankful that they don't have to run the risk of having their arms and legs shot off, or perhaps being blinded for life.
A big munitions factory had been established at Oldhampton, and its demands, added to the necessities of the hospital, left no loophole of excuse for slackers.
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