Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ministers retain their interest in the red man today. Pine Ridge has as many churches per square feet as Times Square has theaters. The only building in Wounded Knee other than the museum and the trading post, both tourist attractions, is the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. The mass grave which commemorates the Indians massacred in 1890 at the last battle between the cavalry and the Indians, stands behind the church...
...charged, were deliberately broken and left unset. The sick and wounded were left in their own excrement for days on end. Fan belts or lengths of rubber turned buttocks of beaten prisoners into raw flesh. Sergeant Don MacPhail said that he was hung from a tree over three fresh graves and beaten with sticks. He was told that he would be in the fourth grave...
...Last week, despite a provisional settlement, more than 250,000 workers were still out on strike in the worst general labor tie-up since World War II. Beyond the current strike is the issue of who pays how much for Denmark's cradle-to-grave security. Danish taxes are among the world's heaviest-nearly 53% of last year's gross national product. Meanwhile, the biggest industry in the country is public administration...
...entrance gate to the mass grave, where 200 Indians massacred by the U.S. cavalry in 1890 are buried. His tepee stood adjacent to the grave, faintly reminiscent of an older, almost forgotten culture...
...master-slave analysis labyrinthine new twists. Hegel was not a slave, however, nor Sartre a Jew. But Fanon was black. His most significant work came out of his sudden realization, as a black psychiatrist in an Algerian mental hospital, that the fact of French colonial domination caused unique and grave psychic disorders in the objects of oppression, Fanon's Moslem patients...