Word: outcaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 1934 the U. S. S. R., long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly seated. At that time, and later, the Geneva platform was used as an international sounding board for Comrade Litvinoff's clean-cut, often stirring theses-against aggression, for the rights of small nations, on the immorality...
...seems to be all too easy to arouse prejudice and passion against the people who so long ago struggled out of the ford of the Jabbok to meet Esau, the hairy man. . . .* Today the Jew in certain areas is a political eunuch, a social outcast, to be dragged down like...
After that, he said, they took illegal whales in the daytime, did not bring them aboard until they thought the snooping Coast Guarder had bunked in for the night. Melodramatic climax of his tale: when he caught them blubber-handed, they began to treat him as a social outcast, and he lived for months in increasing apprehension, among black looks and whispered threats...
...Senator Wagner of New York came to discuss the prospect of Palestine being closed to outcast Jews as a homeland. President Roosevelt promised to high-pressure England. Worrying Senator Wagner also was the sudden strength of Republican John Lord O'Brian's campaign against him for reelection. He sought and received the full-blast backing of the New Deal publicity machine...
When we feel doubts as to the essential goodness and superiority of government by the people, we can revitalize our faith by turning to Thomas Mann, outcast of fascism, prophet of democracy, who has come to its home to preach his holy belief in the latter. In deep, organic tones, he voices his faith in the inevitability of democracy. So long as man believes in his own dignity and in a sense of justice, democracy is necessary. Trite and hackneyed phrases these, but such things assume a new meaning by their very absence...