Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper in the Geneva agreement, but it was a stark reality. By its wavering indecision-unable to stand aloof, unwilling to go all-out in another "little war"-the U.S. had contributed to the defeat. "I will not be a party to any agreement that makes anybody a slave," said President Eisenhower emphatically on June 30. But three weeks later, the U.S. had to stand with the rest of the West, take note of a truce that would make slaves of 12 million Vietnamese...
...regime. As a reward, his midtown embassy got 416 of the new refugees. The building is a high-ceilinged old house of 20 offices and rooms but without grounds or garden. Together with a hastily rented house next door, it soon took on the look of an 18th century slave ship. Asylum seekers, including 60 squalling babies, sprawled on mattresses spread in halls, offices and reception rooms. There was no privacy; on the stairs, people slept, read, quarreled or flirted, oblivious to the constant traffic. Long queues stretched back from the four bathrooms...
...first scene of Demetrius is the last scene of The Robe: the condemned centurion's bride sends the robe to her Christian friends. In trying to hide it, the freed slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) scuffles with a Roman soldier and is sentenced to be trained for the arena in a gladiatorial school...
...Montgomery, Ala., the first Confederate capita], he was invited to join the Southern Congress in secret session. But on his way to the Capitol, Russell had driven past a slave auction, and he was so upset that he refused point-blank to sit with "a Congress of Slave States." One day beside the Mississippi River, an "an-thropoproprietor" insisted upon conducting him around an evil-smelling set of slave pens, beneath their canopy of flies...
...hour watch of 300 yards of fence. Television eyes help check the speed of sugar cane moving along a conveyor belt at the Ewa Plantation near Honolulu, tip off workmen when the cane jams up. At Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, scientists manipulate radioactive material with intricate "slave hands" by means of three-dimensional camera that gives the necessary depth perception for delicate handling. The military has drafted television to get safe closeups of automatic shell loading, seek out enemy targets for guided missiles, and, with cameras mounted in planes and jeeps, survey the front ines for commanders...