Word: bellum
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...builds up vocabulary by using slides. The "Quid est?" routine is only the beginning. "Juvenis oculum gerit" Sweet will suddenly say. "Juvenis pedem gerit . . . Juvenis manum gerit." Gradually the class begins to realize that "gerit" means "has"-until Sweet leaps ahead again. "Juvenis vestum gerit . . . Juvenis gladium gerit . . . Juvenis bellum gerit." By that time, the class realizes that gerit" has a whole "area" of meanings, from "has" to "hold" to "wage" to "wear...
...monstrous scale, in its time, U.S. chattel slavery was not a conservative institution. Superficially a throwback, it was more truly an innovation, a creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...
...alleged Union victory. Could the South possibly lose with such stalwarts as Randolph Scott, Audic Murphy, Robert Ryan, John Wayne and Clark Gable fighting for her? Never! Overwhelmingly the odds favor the lads in grey because, since Birth of a Nation, heroes in pictures dealing with the post-bellum period uniformly speak in the "you-all" patois...
Throughout this period he continued his studies of Southern history. His efforts culminated in 1938 with the publication of "Road to Reunion" which received a Pulitzer Prize and an unrestrained lambasting from a College Marxist group., "Road to Reunion" looks benignly on Southern efforts during the post-bellum Reconstruction period, dimly on Northern contributions, and skeptically at the ultimate value of the Civil War. The Marxist group, however, judged him guilty of "maligning the struggle and achievements of the negroes" and went on to find him following "in the footsteps of the traditional approach to the period by asserting...
...ante-bellum Natchez there was a law against selling liquor to Negroes, but in spite of it the slave Steven was always getting drunk. When he drank, he tried to escape. When he was caught, he was flogged. On Aug. 10, 1840, his master's diary shows that he was beaten twice: "After he had been Brot home, [I] Hand Cuffed him and Floged Him. In the first place I Knocked him Down at the Building-he then ran away, but was soon Brought Back again . . . I gave Him Late in the afternoon a tolerable severe whiping." Master William...