Word: slaverings
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...Economic and Social Council committee on forced labor sent out a questionnaire urging all member nations to report on the extent of slavery in their territories. Loftily denying the existence of such a horrid thing, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia never answered the questionnaire. Anti-Slaver La Graviére hopes his own nation will put the problem before the U.N. General Assembly...
Cinqué's great adventure began when three husky bucks leaped at him from the brush beside the trail and carried him off to be sold to a Spanish slaver. From the Spanish barracoons he was shipped to Cuba, and there sold with 48 other Negroes, many from his own tribe, to a Señor Ruiz. Ruiz loaded his human goods aboard a schooner named Amistad (Friendship), Captain Ferrer commanding; later a Señor Montes took passage. On June 27, 1839, the schooner weighed anchor and headed eastward along the coast of Cuba...
...ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...
Singles: McGovern (H) defeated Duncan (U.S.) 6-1, 6-0; Brady (H) defeated Kulik (U.S.) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1; Camarda (U.S.) defeated Wightman (H) 6-0, 4-6, 6-2; Swartzman (H) defeated Munn (U.S.) 6-2, 6-3; Slaver (U.S.) defeated Muldoon (H) 6-2, 6-1; Gresham (H) defeated Fuller (U.S.) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mayleas (H) defeated Bell (U.S.) 6-4, 6-8, 6-3, and Johnson (U.S.) defeated Melvin...
...Doctor fought, or rather butchered, at Cape Saint Vincent, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, Rochefort and many another action, most of which he was moved to describe in the course of telling about his leg. He sailed for prizes from the West Indies station during the American Revolution, he shipped on a slaver, he was captured by the Mounseers (on that occasion contriving to be the only man ever guillotined at the knee). His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude for him after he removed...