Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later, the onetime clerk came home to die, he was Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, Kt., founder and administrator of the rich island-fortress of Singapore, an imperial hero of the stature of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the man who put a stop to East Indian slave dealing and for whom one of the world's most famous hotels would be named: the Raffles of Singapore...
...what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (Oh! Quel rustre je suis! Quel esclave...
Consider the spiritual implications of the agonizingly slow awakening of public opinion in England to the Government's slave trade in German war prisoners. . . . Now, on what ground has the British Government-a Labor Government!-justified this brutal business? And why has the public for so long so complacently accepted the Government's policy? "Without the labor of the war prisoners, we shall never be able to harvest our crops." True, perhaps, but what different justification did pagan Rome give for the slave system which finally did so much to destroy...
...college football has no more relation to education than bullfighting to agriculture. ... I see no reason why one corporation should hire a specialized group of employes to outrun, outbump and outbruise the specialized employes of another corporation. ..." A football player, he concluded flatly, is nothing more than "a human slave" caught in the "biggest black-market operation" in the history of higher education...
Fritz Sauckel, boss of slave labor...