Word: pariah
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...could not work again. She was so angry she ordered Laetitia out of the house. When her daughter wouldn't leave, the mother threatened to sell the house to get rid of her daughter. Then she walled off her daughter's room with plywood partitions, leaving the daughter a pariah, alone in a cramped, dark space without windows and only a flimsy door opening into the alley. Laetitia must earn the pennies to feed herself and her children by peddling beer, cigarettes and candy from a shopping cart in her room, when people are brave enough to stop...
...time Ashcroft wrote to Pratt, the Virginia-based activist was already branded as a pariah even by those considered to the right of the GOP: Two years earlier, he had been forced to step aside as co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign after news reports of his association with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and militias...
...upon nature and the seasons of the year. In addition to suspending her, her school also confiscated her private journal and forbade her from wearing or drawing any Wiccan symbol in school. In its lawsuit, the school maintains that Blackbear, who formerly had a sterling record, has become a pariah among her peers and has fallen behind in her schoolwork as a result of the allegations. Brandi's father, Timothy Blackbear, told the press that "it's hard for me to believe that in the year 2000 I am walking into court to defend my daughter against charges of witchcraft...
...N.R.A. is not the first time his life has been threatened. This week he will receive the key to his hometown of Lafayette, La., but growing up there in the 1970s--openly gay, conspicuously tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.) and unapologetically nonconformist--he was "the No. 1 pariah at school," recalls Aucoin, now 38. "Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker." He dropped out of school at 15, he says, when two classmates tried to run him over with a car. He left Louisiana at 21 after...
...shied from the issues. When she won her first big international championship in the Commonwealth Games several years ago, someone in the audience handed her the Aboriginal flag and, during her victory trot, she wore it around her shoulders. Well, she was just vilified back home. She became a pariah. Old white male sports officials wanted her banned...