Word: landlordism
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...been forced to kneel on the links of chains, with other heavy chains around their necks, and had then been denied food & water. In the end, all had confessed. One had been publicly executed but, pending payment, Sin-shee Jang was being forced to wear a sign reading "Landlord" and to walk miles each day on her bound feet...
...Some firm statements from Senators and [U.S.] publicists remind [the British] too much of the Irish landlord who wrote from London to his tenants in Connaught, 'If you think you can intimidate me by shooting my bailiff, you are much mistaken.' The English are sometimes afraid they have been tapped for bailiff...
Breaking Points. In Chicago, Peter Musick admitted smashing eight plate-glass windows because "it gave me a sense of fulfillment." In New Albany, Ind., when Tenant Frank Collins refused to pay his rent on the ground that it was above the OPA ceiling, Landlord William Deatrick chopped down the stairway entrance to Collins' apartment...
Such an approach was pure demagoguery. Iran's poverty was more the fault of an inefficient government and an oppressive landlord system than of any foreign influence. The British could be blamed, however, for having failed to do something about inefficiency and oppression. For its workers in the Khuzistan fields, Anglo-Iranian has built model dispensaries, schools and recreation grounds, but it has made no effort to integrate itself in the life of the country. In 1951, swimming pools and flush toilets for the oil workers make a poor substitute for a long-term policy...
...gaudy melodrama, written by six anonymous authors, of whom Mao may be one. It portrays the suffering of Heroine Hsi-erh, a landless farmer's daughter, who is tortured by the landlord's mother, raped by the landlord's son, etc., etc. Her ordeal turns her hair prematurely white. The Red army finally rescues her and punishes the wicked landlord family...