Word: downtrodden
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...both right & left. Marxist socialism penetrated the universities. Officers of the defeated army organized totalitarian dictatorships. One dictator, pro-Nazi President Gualberto Villaroel, was overthrown after World War II in a fashion so violent that all the world remembers him-hanged from a lamp post before his palace. The downtrodden tin miners, finding a leader of their own in a magnetic, Marxist-minded ex-soccer star named Juan Lechin, rallied to his union and fought bloody battles with company-paid army garrisons...
...same year that Marx & Engels published their Communist Manifesto (1848), a group of women met in Seneca Falls, N.Y., pondered their discontents, and issued a manifesto of their own. "The history of mankind," it said, "is a history of repeated injuries . . . toward woman." The downtrodden of Seneca Falls resolved to turn woman's wrongs into Woman's Rights. Moreover, the same sort of female revolt was getting under way all over Christendom...
Lillian Hellman, 46, the talented author of such Broadway and Hollywood hits as The Little Foxes and Watch on the Rhine, has quite a record of political activity outside the theater. Her sympathies for the world's downtrodden, by her own account, have led her twice to visit Russia. In 1945 she was the Soviet government's honored guest. Her sympathies have also led her to attend countless Red-inspired rallies and to lend her name to various Communist-front crusades. Playwright Hellman, who once described herself as "the greatest meeting-goer in the country," went last week...
...Harvard student is a downtrodden animal. Instinctively fun-loving and hell-raising in his search for excitement, he has at every turn been clubbed, flogged, gassed, rusticated, jailed, admonished, severed, and expunged...
Delegate Ernest Gross gave the U.S. answer. "I have been instructed," said he with embarrassment, "to abstain." Britain and France voted against the Tunisian plea; Soviet Russia, playing to the hilt its role as the champion of the downtrodden colonials, voted...