Word: pauper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats, and I can assure this gentleman that it matters not to me his party or his position. He is subject to the rule of law and to justice, and in my role under my oath, he will get it, be he President or be he pauper...
...whom the other men jokingly call "Miss India"--they use the English phrase. Her stunning beauty is so captivating, in Hari's eyes--and in ours--that we feel a whole country has been raped by the city boy when she suddenly appears as she really is: a pathetic pauper, drunk and asking for more, begging for work and selling herself to Hari. To him, the ambiguous transaction is neither prostitution nor charity but a means of keeping her from having to demean herself by doing menial work. Miss India is one of most sensitively handled characters...
Thus, last week, a host of young European left-wing activists paid tribute to the ideas and ideals of a bearded German philosopher who died a pauper and was buried in London's Highgate Cemetery 90 years ago. Today, the powerful, shaggy visage of Karl Marx peers out of a bookstore window in Rome. It glowers over a meeting of young German Socialists at Hannover-Linden and a student gathering at Vincennes University on the outskirts of Paris. The name is scrawled on buildings and walls from Norway to Sicily, sometimes in elaborate quotations but most often only...
...theory, Oilman John McCandish King should be a pauper. He has lost his $170,000-a-year job as chairman of King Resources, a mineral exploration firm. That company has been forced into bankruptcy, and creditors are seeking to have Colorado Corp., a holding company that is 90% owned by King, declared bankrupt also. The Internal Revenue Service has slapped liens on his property for $5,300,000 in back taxes. Creditors, former investors, and tax authorities are suing him in at least six states to collect what is left of his personal fortune, which was once estimated...
...junkie's diet, and became fat. He undertook his own defense in court and, like a character out of Kafka, became lost before the law. His annual income in the late '50s and early '60s averaged $100,000; in 1965 he was legally declared a pauper...