Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hand in Hand. The Soviet Union tried hard to exploit the new balance of power. Although the Afro-Asian group may have deplored Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging behavior in the Assembly, many of the new neutralist nations, for reasons of their own, were willing to join in voting against "Western imperialism" on more than one important occasion. Where Russia once voted with only a lonely Communist bloc of nine on many resolutions, 20 and more members now found their voting plans coinciding with the Reds', though few of the new countries were Communist or even sympathetic...
...spending up to $105 per man to buy freedom for those in bondage. Should India move too fast in abolishing slavery, the NEFA tribes might rebel and turn for help to the Red Chinese across the border in Tibet. But if India moves too slowly, Red propagandists will exploit the existence of slavery in democratic India. By and large, said Nehru, slaves in NEFA are treated like one of the family. Some have been captured in tribal wars, but others come from within the same tribe and accept slavery to discharge a family debt, or to receive protection from...
Your description (Dec. 5) of the Wiesbaden area is one-sidedly accurate. The other side is bigger and longer. Sure, there's an active social life. We must keep busy. Do you prefer that we exploit the reputation of American womanhood by engaging in quiet prostitution and Gasthaus lounging, or should we keep active in scouting, P.T.A., women's clubs and civic activities? The women's club I belonged to adopted a German orphanage; we delivered food to German refugees living in the basement of bombed-out buildings-so dirty that the average American woman would have...
...been deposed as London's police chief. Both of these old criminals have been stripped of their respectability by an enormous demonstration put on by thousands of crippled beggars during Queen Victoria's coronation parade. At the end of the film, the three criminals join forces to exploit the hungry masses, and the film's last shot is of a straggling mob of cripples disappearing into the darkness...
...there have been many difficulties. Some of the poorer hospitals exploit the visiting doctors as semi-slave labor, e.g., to replace orderlies; and they offer the foreigners little professional training. Thus treated, the foreign doctor is often a liability to patients in his care...