Word: pauperizing
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...that dated from the days of Moses and was a blend of synagogue, law court and psychoanalyst's consulting room for the superstitious, the bereaved and the troubled. For Isaac Bashevis, it exemplified "the celestial council of justice, God's judgment, absolute mercy." One time a miserable pauper, who was forced to keep the corpse of his wife in his rat-ridden cellar room until it could be buried, asked if it were permitted a good Jew to sleep in the same bed with a body. The whole horrified neighborhood tumbled out compassionately with donations of food, clothing...
Fair's Fair. After two years in Statesville, which he remembers as all "whistles, bells and men in brown," Danny filed a pauper's appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, which duly appointed an able young Chicago lawyer named Eugene Farrug to handle his case for no fee. On first meeting his scrawny client, Farrug felt immediate compassion: "He looked so small and helpless. There was the enormity of the prison, the towering guards, the prison clothes a little too big for him." Danny himself could hardly believe the earnest stranger's promise that "you have...
...High Veld are the tobacco ranches, the major cities, and most of the country's wealth. Whoever controls that high land controls the destiny of the country, and whoever fails to control that plateau becomes a pauper. All other inequities in Rhoddesia result from the unequal distribution of land--the Europeans on the rich land and the Africans on the poor...
...Arthur Carlsberg, you report, is a millionaire. He is so busy he rarely sees his three sons-takes off one week a year to spend with them, and leaves his office to be with them on their birthdays. Big deal. Arthur Carlsberg is no millionaire-he is a pauper...
...attention has been drawn to your report [Nov. 27] entitled "The Princely Pauper." There is no truth whatever in the story that Prince Charles has sold his autograph at any time. There is also no truth whatever in the story that he sold his composition book to a classmate. In the first place, he is intelligent and old enough to realize how embarrassing this would turn out to be. and second, he is only too conscious of the interest of the press in anything to do with himself and his family. The suggestion that his parents keep him so short...