Word: downtrodden
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...considered a crime against the state. The government bureaucracy includes the absurdly named Ministry of Clams, a sort of dead-letter office for all insoluble problems, whose minister believes that attempting to solve them would be "a mockery of the human condition." Blond-haired people, regarded as inferior, are downtrodden. Under Saint Sebastian's Enlightenment, the schools offer a nonstop curriculum of American B movies of the 1930s and '40s, with nuns serving as ushers and priests cranking the projectors...
Although papal authority has emerged as the overriding issue, there are also important debates about church involvement in contemporary social matters. John Paul has led the way, denouncing economic injustice and insisting on the rights of the downtrodden. Taking their lead from the Pontiff, American bishops are issuing strong moral stands on their nation's nuclear arms strategy, the U.S. economic system and the evil of abortion. Bishops in Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and other lands have boldly denounced human rights abuses by their governments. In South Africa, white Archbishop Denis Hurley will go on trial...
Under a program designed to revitalize downtrodden commercial zones, the developer has requested $3 million in tax-exempt Industrial Revenue Bonds...
...town outside Lille, and the author has been lectured by French critics for attempting it. She borrowed the plot from a 1965 short story by Jean Hougron, who brought suit against her; Sagan won the case on appeal. The outline is familiar maybe even a bit hoary: Gueret, a downtrodden bookkeeper, despised by his bosses and his landlady, stumbles upon a cache of jewels. They were lost in the course of a murder, which Gueret did not commit but Mme. Biron, the landlady, thinks he did. She is a retired Marseille moll, and in her eyes Gueret's bravado...
...proportional share, in the running of their homeland. As this was happening, they found an unlikely spokesman in the quintessentially Ashkenazic person of Menachem Begin (some even pronounce his name Ray-geen to give it a Middle Eastern ring). The right-wing former Prime Minister appealed to the downtrodden Sephardim both because of his fierce nationalism and because of previous neglect of their basic needs. In the 1977 and 1981 elections, the Sephardim helped bring Begin to power by delivering an overwhelming majority of their vote. This year, however, their political party preferences remain uncertain, and ethnic divisions have been...