Word: pariah
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Such criticism is not likely to deter the Teamsters. After years of being shunned as the pariah of organized labor, the Teamsters have nourished an ardent romance with the Nixon Administration that has given them a new measure of respectability and influence. An unbridled push for expansion has brought the union more than 2,000,000 members, making it the largest in the non-Communist world. What worries Meany and other labor leaders is that much of the Teamsters' growing strength is coming from raids on AFL-CIO unions...
Although the East German government was not trumpeting the good news to its citizens, the treaty opens the way for international acceptance of the German Democratic Republic, long a pariah state acknowledged only by the Communist and Arab blocs and scattered sympathizers. In the 43 days before the treaty was signed, 15 countries, led by Pakistan, accorded recognition to East Berlin. Last week they were joined by Greece and Cyprus-bringing the total of nations that recognize East Germany to 49. Denmark, Canada and Australia are expected to follow suit. France, Britain and the U.S. will probably exchange ambassadors with...
...Pariah. Spain's brutal war had scarcely subsided in 1939 before Europe's war began. Despite his debts to Germany and Italy for their help in his victory, Franco avoided the bigger battle, and even turned aside a German request for permission to attack Gibraltar through Spain. Franco and Hitler met for nine hours one day in 1940 to discuss the question. By the end of their conversation, Hitler was unnerved by Franco's high-pitched monotone. "The man is not cut out to be a politician," the Führer complained later. "I would rather have...
Nevertheless, Franco's sympathies were so obvious that at war's end he was considered a pariah by the victorious allies. Spain was refused membership in the new United Nations organization, France for a time closed its borders and halted commerce, and active plans were made to overthrow Franco. Economic crisis and occasionally actual hunger plagued Spaniards. They warmed to Franco for the first time when he told them defiantly: "If the world chooses to turn its back on us, we will go it alone...
...denying spirit of Christianity as represented by Saint Anthony:" Margaret is the "eternal girl woman with a virtuous simplicity of instinct, properly oblivious to everything but the means to her end of maintaining the race;" Cybel is "an incarnation of Cybelle, the Earth Mother doomed to segregation as a pariah in a world of unnatural laws;" and last of all, Brown is "the visionless demi-god of our new materialistic myth--a Success--building his life of exterior things inwardly empty and resourceless...