Word: downtrodden
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...lying areas, a problem that has long exacerbated natural disasters across Mexico.) He won last year's election by a razor-thin margin with a largely middle-class support base in the industrial north. His rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a Tabasco native who champions the poor and downtrodden, claims Calderon fixed the election and tours the country calling himself the "legitimate president...
...made about wanting to “see the officials” was heard as a small crowd began to form around the Crimson football team. The players stood in a small group, fresh off their crushing 31-28 last second loss at Holy Cross. They were dejected, downtrodden. They, like Murphy, were angry...
...what he has done for Britain and the world [May 14]. I congratulate TIME for reporting the positive accomplishments of someone who might otherwise be remembered only for his mistake of supporting the invasion of Iraq. Blair deserves respect as a visionary leader who had the will to help downtrodden countries. Rahul Radhakrishnan, Trivandrum, India...
...being thrown against the Pirates of the Caribbean juggernaut next weekend, which probably is a result of a lot of people going "yetch" when they saw it. I understand that response. Who wants to see a movie shot almost entirely in a wretched motel room, in which a downtrodden waitress (Ashley Judd, in a stunning performance) first fends off her sadistic former husband, newly paroled from jail, then takes up with an apparently agreeable drifter (Michael Shannon) who is well, er, a little more loony than he at first appears...
...Also drawn to the annual meeting from all corners of China are representatives of those downtrodden and dispossessed in China's giddy rush to modernity. These are the Petitioners, representing millions of ordinary Chinese here to highlight some local injustice they have suffered - the illegal seizure of land or houses, or bullying by local authorities. They are exercising their millennia-old right to appeal for redress to those in power in the capital. Almost as old as China itself, this system has long served as a safety-valve, a court of last appeal for the desperate. Most of the main...