Word: slave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge crowd which packed Phillips Brooks House to listen in shocked silence to his story, or rather to the story of Paraguay's ordeal since General Alfredo Stroessner took over in a coup d'etat in 1954. Despite Stroessner's stranglehold on the country, Filartiga believes he is "a slave of my people," not of the government...
Each student also spends at least one 14-hour stretch chained to Westward's diesel stove as "galley slave," cooking for 34 people. Meals are justly referred to as "feeding frenzies." Sample fare: pizza, noodles and beef, fresh-caught dolphin fish. For the most part, the young mariners are too tired for ship board romance, which is discouraged anyway in SEA literature as "tiresome and destructive" in such close quarters. A student-lettered sign high above deck announces: NO FRIGGING IN THE RIGGING...