Word: downtrodden
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...minstrels began trudging, two champions of the downtrodden appeared, neither one a folk singer: Harold Humes, a 35-year-old writer who is good at writing novels (The Underground City) and miserably inept at ingratiating himself with police; and John Mitchell, a coffeehouse proprietor currently protesting one of Manhattan's customary coffeehouse operating expenses, the police shakedown. (Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm admitted last week that "we have an uneasy hunch that some cops take money.") Humes and Mitchell spoke loudly about free speech, the sorry behavior of police officers, and the logical theory that Village real estate...
...President Kennedy's oft-stated intention of doing more for Latin America, the Administration will step up financial and technical assistance and free-food programs, take a sympathetic view of revolutionary movements that have the legitimate objective of bettering the life of the hemisphere's poor and downtrodden. At his press conference, the President pointedly exempted any such movements dominated by "external"-meaning Communist-forces, thereby shutting the door on renewed diplomatic relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...distance to a neighboring town, a Corfiote villager would reply with the number of cigarettes smoked in transit. With the reminder that "Poverty is the Tenth Muse" of Greece, Durrell makes the inevitable attempt to define the national character: It "is based on the idea of the impoverished and downtrodden little man getting the better of the world around him by sheer cunning. Add to this the salt of a self-deprecating humour and you have the immortal Greek. A coward and a hero at the same time; a man torn between his natural and heroic genius and his hopeless...
...uprising of the downtrodden started in the very first game. With a season batting average of .273, Pirate Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski, 24, had been ignominiously relegated to the eighth spot in the batting order, the slot reserved for the pattyball hitters. So with one man on, Mazeroski pulled a ball over the ivy-covered leftfield brick wall in Forbes Field, and the Pirates were on their way to their first 6-4 victory...
Charity Begins. ... To Sicilians, the connection between frontier-style crime and economic backwardness is more than a mere alibi. In an era when the downtrodden of Asia, Latin America and Africa make more drastic claims on the world's sympathy, Sicily, the home of one of Europe's oldest civilizations, gets scant foreign attention. But of Sicily's 4,700,000 people, 900,000 are officially classed as totally destitute, 1,200,000 more "semi-destitute." In Palermo, a recent neighborhood survey found 498 people (74 of them infants) crowded into 118 rooms. There was only...