Word: oppressed
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...status quo, with disastrous results. Time is slowly proving to a reluctant Europe that the "status quo" can not be embalmed in such fashion, and that an uneven balance of power can never be maintained through multi-lateral pacts, unless war be used as an international black-jack to oppress the weaker nation. Belgium, realizing that too close an alignment with France may draw her into war with countries with which she has no direct quarrel, has clear sightedly chosen the independent path...
...strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that he is going to be killed, when his failure to solve the moral problems that oppress him has led to his physical breakdown, he proposes to Rose that she marry him so that he may leave his fortune to her. But Rose has fallen in love with Mario, although Mario is attentive to her only from habit. In comparison with Mario, who believes that...
...against English Capitalism that the fatal blow must be struck! . . . Five per cent of Englishmen are the biggest property owners. They oppress not only the remaining population but also thousands of peoples of other nationalities- Indians, Persians, Chinese, etc.! Each English capitalist forces about 100 English workers and several hundred workers in England's colonies and the oppressed countries to drudge for him. . . . These enslaved people must unite! Yes, we must array ourselves against the English bourgeoisie. We must seize the English Imperialist by the throat and trample him underfoot...
There has been much talk by members of the present Administration in Washington that the New Deal is the friend of the common man, and that the only library which they are trying to suppress is the liberty of the wealthy to oppress the many poor. We should be pleased to have the Administration answer whether or not it constitutes oppression when...
...myth of Capital as the oppressor rests upon a verbal confusion of Capital with capitalists, a factual confusion ot capitalists with managers, and a misconception of the powers and desires of managers. Material capital does, of course, oppress certain forms of labor (or more truly of mental capital) when a new invention replaces their skill by a machine and requires them to fall back on mere unskilled labor as their offering to purchase the world's goods. But in the long run it is a great aid and weapon of labor...