Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact our organization classes the Communist Party as an enemy of the working class. As far as we are concerned, they can take the whole scabby, stinking Communist Party and kick it in the middle of Siberia and let it have a taste of Uncle Joe Stalin's slave camps ... It is our considerate opinion that this is a fit place for the American Communist Party, its stooges, its fellow travelers-long-haired ones, short-haired ones-and what have...
...material which lime-charged seepage turned to hard stone. He is an Aurignacian boy, genuinely human but following closely in period the semi-human Neanderthals. In fact, he may be a link between the two types. Perhaps his Aurignacian father captured a lowbrowed Neanderthal girl, kept her as a slave, and had a child...
...Masticate. Twentieth Century man is as unlike his forebears as the Yale lock is unlike the wooden tumbler-lock of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Democracy has taught him to hate slavery-and the machine has made him so little of a slave that he scarcely needs to use his hands and jaws and legs. The more "neutral" and "uniform" a product is, the more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that...
Twice the Persians invaded Greece with overwhelming armies & navies, but they had levies from more than 50 slave nations, and the little Greek city-states, fighting for their own hearths and way of life, threw them into the sea. The Carthaginians hired mercenaries to defend their city, and when these hirelings revolted, Carthage was stabbed in the back and left to the mercy of the Romans. And Rome herself fell when the famed Roman legions were replaced by Germanic soldiers...
...next day Gliksman repeated these words to another slave laborer, Professor Strovsky, an aging Russian scholar. Strovsky, with the fatalism of those who have suffered too much, doubted if telling the West would help much: "They won't want to believe you anyway...