Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies have been withdrawn or restricted in reprisal for minor infractions of Nazi edicts. When students plastered a French town with De Gaullist placards, meat ration cards were canceled for 40 days. In certain areas marked for German colonization, the Nazis withhold vitamins from the population to foster a slave mentality...
...newly created Lord Wedgwood, potteries scion and for 35 years a stanchly liberal M.P., went off on another tack. "This overemphasized question of slavery! One can go into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
...Jews' share of the German income and aggregate wealth "was four times that of the Jewish population ratio. . . . Today there are no Jewish business enterprises in Germany, no Jewish lawyers, craftsmen, actors or musicians. . . . With the exception of the manual labor which they perform upon a virtually slave basis, the Jews have been completely eliminated from the economic life of greater Germany...
Pleased with his exhibition, George Washington Carver is equally pleased with a brand-new automatic elevator, a present from his admirer Henry Ford, which was installed six weeks ago to save his aged legs (he was born a slave at an unknown date in the 1860s) the 19 painful steps up to his room. "Exquisite elevator," he chortled. "The doctor said he couldn't do much for me as long as I climbed those 19 steps. I'm not very old, but I've been around a long time...
...Tschaikowsky's music contains a greater or lesser degree of emotion, which Tschaikowsky, an introvert, could not expend in the usual channels and, therefore, allowed to appear in his music. When this emotion is allowed to overbalance the seance of musical architecture which Tschaikowsky admittedly possessed, as in Marche Slave, the 1812 Overture, and the earlier symphonies, the result is something which approximates trash yet, nevertheless, contains definite musical interest. However, it must be admitted that when, as in the last three symphonies and the two popular concertos, Tschaikowsky succeeds in welding this emotion into a large, completely satisfying vessel...