Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote Old Uncle Ned, the first of his famed slave songs (Old Folks at Home, My Old Kentucky Home, Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground) for a glee club which he directed. His marriage to Jane McDowell produced two great songs: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, in her honor; and Old Black Joe, celebrating the McDowell family butler. For $15 Foster sold the performing rights to his greatest-selling song, Old Folks at Home. It started as Way Down Upon de Pedee Ribber but Stephen, not liking the sound of that, consulted an atlas and discovered Florida...
...goats' entrails, gossiping with his witch doctors, snuffing the air in the royal courtyard, where his dogs gnawed rotting carcasses (of animals, mostly). Sometimes he climbed into his throne (a wheel chair) and dispensed judgment in the good old Matabele way-flinging to the crocodiles a slave who had sipped the royal beer, or impaling an unfaithful wife. He had "a benignant smile" and was popular with his people...
...them. (What Russia intends to do with the coal in her part of Germany she has so far kept to herself.) The Ruhr mines were little damaged, but the Allied Coal Headquarters set up to run the mines will have to find manpower (the Nazis employed 160.000 slave workers in the Ruhr) and provide housing and food for the miners, now getting only 1,000 to 2,200 calories a day (requirement for men engaged in heavy labor: 4,000 calories). In addition, the railroads and canals must be rebuilt to haul the coal away...
...believed to have been German-sired. Despite these contributions, the French birth rate, already low before the war, ran consistently behind the death rate. In six years (1936-42), France's population dropped 4,000,000. The return of 2,000,000 Frenchmen from German prison camps and slave labor battalions, now under way, will be a step in the right direction, but probably not enough of one. For many of these men have been so weakened by undernourishment and ill treatment that they have temporarily lost either the desire or the capacity for fatherhood...
...Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings and desperate...