Word: downtrodden
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...agreed that the person who can provide opportunities for all these downtrodden men will be hailed as the savior of our age. Though I care little for the admiration of the country, I have still come up with a plan that not only solves the problem of unemployment, but that also has many other side benefits...
...sciences has just been trumped. We turn to Tuesday’s Faculty meeting in its place. Slighting norms of civility, certain opportunistic members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have decided to rile the mob and convene the kangaroo court to put Summers—already downtrodden from his unjust beating by the media over the past month—on the hot seat...
Uplifting the Downtrodden...
...lieu of Harvard’s heartbreaking double-overtime loss to Northeastern in the tournament’s semifinals, one might expect the No. 10 Crimson men’s hockey team to be hurt and downtrodden. But as assistant coach Bobby Jay explained, that’s far from the case...
...European counterparts. If a black baby manages to survive her first year, the mere fact that she is black makes her more likely to be malnourished, impoverished, incarcerated, raped, infected with AIDS and violently killed. Our world today is not so different from Garvey’s. The downtrodden Negro race is no more, but it has been replaced by a people who still suffer from the same racial inequalities across national and continental boundaries...