Word: loafered
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Good & Dead. "When local whites criticize the South for racial segregation," asks Rowan, "is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?" Rowan says he found "almost no citizen who will say directly that he considers the Indian racially inferior, or inherently a loafer or a drunkard." Yet the director of an Indian hospital at White Earth, Minn. told him: "The feeling in some communities is that the only good Indians are dead Indians." In many areas Indians are denied admission to hospitals, refused police protection, turned down when they apply for social-welfare...
...kiminetas Springs School, the big competition for education is not a crisis but a cause for rejoicing. "This change at the admissions office," says he, "has altered the atmosphere all over the campus. In the classrooms the professors can insist on high achievement levels and dismiss the loafer . . . The time has come when the college student must really produce . . . How the educators love this...
...Czarist Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their ways--and then into the midst of Nixon California (1956) where people apparently are. This is achieved through supernatural power--specifically, the will of the sexy Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, who has given her Victorian lover-loafer the gift of immortality. We follow him through the three ages into senility, and we learn that loafers are almost never happy and that the restless will always be restless. The message is not very significant, but it has lots of vitality...
...radio car to the police station, where he hoarsely announced: "I can buy and sell the lot of you, and I'm going to do it, too." After kicking a cop in the shins, Nicky was calmed down. He gave his age as 22, his occupation as "loafer," his pleasure as getting sprung for $1,000 bribe (declined). Booked as a common drunk, Nicky was taken to county jail with exactly $14.16 in his jeans...
...greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...