Word: downtrodden
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...peoples have experienced the Exodus in their own way. Here Pharoah's state is a colonial regime, there a domestic system of legalized injustice; here Moses is a leader who speaks with God, there a representative assembly that speaks for the people. Everywhere, the people are hopeful and stubborn, downtrodden and then ennobled...
...mayor's expedition into the world of the downtrodden was indeed an attention-getting departure for someone who also happens to be a millionaire. But the excursion was less startling in this city, which tends to write its own rules for its free-form public life. One rule is that a woman politician, perhaps better than a man, can attempt the new and different. For San Diego is where the new is the norm and woman power is a dominant force in the political game. Here the "smoke-filled rooms," such as they are, tend to be flamingo- colored restaurants...
...Miserables (1987). Victor Hugo's tale of the downtrodden and a doomed revolution electrified 19th century Europe. Set to an emotion-drenched score and given a nonpareil staging, it has stirred audiences all over the late 20th century world...
Sakharov's most lasting contribution to mankind may have been his effort to limit nuclear testing and encourage multilateral disarmament, for which he won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. But he was best known as the indefatigable champion of the dissident, the downtrodden and the persecuted in his country. It was in this role that he incurred the deadly wrath of Brezhnev and the KGB. In the decade before Sakharov's banishment to Gorky, his two-room apartment was a haven for men and women who had fallen afoul of Soviet totalitarianism. Sitting at his enamel-top kitchen table, drinking...
Then, (and this one is worst of all) I felt remorse. Until this year, my images of Eastern Europe were of downtrodden men who toiled for The Party and ate watery cabbage soup. Face it: I was weened on the Cold War. I grew up thinking that the way it is is the way it would always...