Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, he has divined the true nature of Jesus' mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world not to confirm the mighty in their seat but to exalt the meek and the humble. . . . The Syrian slave-immigrants who once brought Christianity into Roman Italy performed the miracle of establishing a new religion which was alive in the place of an old religion which was already dead. It is possible that the Negro slave-immigrants who have found Christianity in America may perform the greater miracle of raising...
...meeting was then opened to specific questions from the audience. Obstacles to the rehabilitation of French citizens who were slave laborers in Germany was a focal point of discussion...
...been imprisoned by the Germans; some were White Russians with Nansen passports; some were Bulgarians, Rumanians, Poles who turned to Russia when the rest of the world proved inhospitable. For 20 days before sailing most of the passengers had languished in a concentration camp built by the Germans for slave laborers. Then they had been driven to the dockside in crowded trucks, whisked aboard under the watchful eye of French and Russian police...
Absolute dictatorship the world has never seen, will never see. Every tyrant is a slave to the inescapable calculus of power: how can I keep them bent to my will? Last week when the Kremlin extended its new conciliatory foreign policy line (see INTERNATIONAL), it was recognizing (as it often had before) that the blindfolded, voiceless 193,000,000 inhabitants of the U.S.S.R. were still a major factor in determining Russia's course...
Zweig has two explanations for the vast productivity of the squat, ugly writer who became the acknowledged master of the 19th Century realistic novel. One was Balzac's feverish lust for power. "If the opportunity had offered, Balzac might equally well have become a businessman or a slave-dealer, a speculator in real estate or a banker. It was mere chance that directed his genius into the channel of literature...