Word: downtrodden
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Into Wozzeck, Büchner worked all his tense, young pity for the downtrodden. Wozzeck is a poor bewildered soldier, stationed in a small German city in peacetime. His captain bullies him, a crackbrain doctor experiments on him, his mistress philanders with the drum-major, who has chest like a bull and a beard like a lion." Twenty-six terse, stark scenes tell the tragedy. Wozzeck stabs his mistress, drowns himself. At the end, while the news is gibbered through the streets, their child rides about on his hobbyhorse...
...sultry summer of 1894 when he led the great Pullman strike in Chicago to the bitter Christmas Eve in 1921 when he walked free from the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Eugene Victor Debs was a name to anger conservative businessmen throughout the land, to hearten the consciously downtrodden. Behind the name was a tall lanky blue-eyed man, rapidly going bald, with a genius for friendship, a heart emotionally soft, a darting forefinger, a tongue afire with vituperation. Five times was he a candidate for President of the U. S. His whole life was a steady passionate movement...
...fomented antagonism against Mexico by statements made in European capitals. She has criticized the Mexican Constitution and the structure of laws based thereon. She has declared that some day downtrodden Mexican women will rise and assert themselves. Just now she is safely out of Mexico but Mexican indignation still runs high against Mme. Alexandria Kollontay...
Since 70% of Bolivians are Indians, and since those who revolted last week are of the ancient and once imperial Inca strain, their rioting, burning of haciendas, and murdering of numerous white landlords could be considered the acts of a downtrodden people, righteously aroused at last...
...delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status, but theirs is a voice that speaks for India; vast, three times more populous than the U. S., downtrodden, inarticulate...