Word: downtrodden
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Like other religious leaders, Billy Graham has tapped his son as his successor. But Franklin has proved his mettle by a decade of missionary and medical-relief work in the downtrodden areas of the world. He holds the promise of being a great ambassador of Christ. BOB CLEATH San Luis Obispo, California
...Berenson's real passion was always to help the downtrodden; as a teenager she donated time to a soup kitchen. In 1989 she dropped out of M.I.T. and went to work with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a leftist group that opposed U.S. military aid to the right-wing Salvadoran government. She worked for cispes in New York City and Washington before pulling up stakes in 1991 and moving to Central America, where she spent time in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. During occasional visits home to the U.S., she told friends she worked...
...Ghost of Tom Joad, is his best in years, it's because Springsteen has turned his attention once again to the downtrodden. The songs on the new album are about desperate lives along the Mexican-American border. Each is like a short story; several unwind without choruses. On Sinaloa Cowboys, Springsteen sings of two illegal immigrants who fall in with drug traffickers (he manages to rhyme "ravine" and "methamphetamine"). His sound--somewhere between Springsteen's stark Nebraska album and his serenely wrenching hit Streets of Philadelphia--is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, harmonica and keyboard...
...that group feels downtrodden, that's not a good thing," he added...
...really an outspoken person for the downtrodden," Sullivan says...