Word: outcaste
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...system saw five or six houses with applications for only 50 per cent of their available rooms. The Dean's program eliminates this vacancy problem, which often involved embarrassing allocation decisions by the house masters, along with building the prestige and usefulness of otherwise outcast colleges...
...Outcast. In Moundsville, W.Va., a convict serving a twelve-month term in the state penitentiary sent out letters to his creditors back home: "I wish you would quit writing those dunning letters . . . They are very damaging to my social position here at the prison...
...befits civilized people to relegate the sexual deviate to the unhappy position of the outcast and the criminal . . . Articles such as yours will go a long way to help us face the problem squarely and thereby to assist the unfortunate individuals caught . . . in the mesh of their own emotions...
...Brahman caste, came to love the Untouchables. Like the Mahatma, he called them harijans, or "children of God." As he tramped across India's countryside, exhorting landowners to give up part of their holdings to landless peasants, the respected Bhave would visit the Untouchables in their outcast dwellings, and accept food from their hands. Slowly chipped at over the years, the Hindu practice of untouchability was declared illegal in the constitution which free India adopted in 1949. But Bhave, like Gandhi, knew that true justice for the Untouchables must come not from man's laws but from...
...felt reasonably confident of winning if Correspondent could only outrun the great Dancer. Other owners, riders and trainers were not figuring it quite so closely. Each had his hopes, but the betting odds reflected something like a U.S. consensus. At post time, the Dancer, coupled with his stablemate Social Outcast, was the odds-on favorite at 7-10; Correspondent (Arcaro up) was the second choice at 3-1. The rest of the field went into the gate at odds...