Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against their will last summer during peach picking around Spartanburg, S.C. They allegedly charged the whites exorbitant amounts for such things as wine, soap, razor blades and cigarettes, and forcibly prevented them from leaving until their debts were paid. According to the indictment, the blacks, with perhaps a backward bow to Simon Legree, beat one white migrant who tried to leave the camp...
...Rabindranath Tagore-Mujib enrolled as a law student at Dacca University. He supported a strike by the university's menial workers, and quickly found himself in jail once again. He indignantly rejected an offer to be set free on bail. "I did not come to the university to bow my head to injustice," he said grandly. When he got out of jail, Mujib discovered that he had been expelled from the university. He promptly set out on a turbulent political career and spent 10½ of the next 23 years behind bars. "Prison is my other home," he once...
...music which the New Lost City Ramblers play is based almost entirely on field recordings made by commercial record companies and the Library of Congress during the period between 1925 and 1935. The Ramblers play almost the entire range of American folk instruments (mouth bow, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar), in the styles used by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, and Dr. Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters, to name but a few of the groups from which the Ramblers derive their repertoire. They play old breakdowns, sing ballads...
Thieves broke into the Harvard Center for Population Studies on Bow St. last night sometime between the hours of 7 and 11 p.m. and took an undetermined number of typewriters and office machines...
...There is nothing degrading about serving hungry people their food," she continued. "The job becomes degrading when you have to bow, scrape and kiss ass for a tip, and then there is still no guarantee...