Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ubico has no children, legitimate or otherwise. "I slave day and night," he complains to intimates, "and I haven't even a son to leave my fortune to." But he tries. At 65, he continually boasts of his virility...
Philosopher! a fingering slave...
...West Point-educated Taylor Henry wrote that from his observation German morale, far from falling, had risen in the past six months; the determination to fight it out was stronger than ever. Slave labor (40% of productive workers) was being kept in line; work was being speeded on refitting the 2,751-mi. coastal-defense line from Norway's tip to Spain's border in the light of lessons learned in Italy...
Opobo is a village on the Imo river in Nigeria. In 1873, when opening the country to trade, the British found it expedient to make Jaja, an ex-slave and a river pirate, King of Opobo. He turned out to be a bad king. He fought traders, intimidated natives, did his own buying and selling. He was seized and banished to the West Indies in 1887. Four years later he died. In 1892 the British Government was assessed for resultant damages, agreed to pay ?11,420 in 30 to 50 years. Last week British justice was done; Britain...
Snow lay deep on the hills around Oslo. On Christmas Day, as always, Norwegians thronged the ski slopes. Men over 45 and boys under 18, outside the Nazi slave-labor brackets, began practicing for this winter's illegal championship, the fourth since Norway's athletes went on strike...