Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cherokee Grandmother. As the Pied Piper of Harlem, Powell has an odd set of credentials. Most of his followers are Negroes; and though the lightskinned, hazel-eyed Powell has represented himself in the past as the grandson of a branded slave, he now says he is not a Negro (his grandmother, he says, was a Cherokee Indian, his other grandparents white). Most of his constituents know the sting of poverty; Powell has never lacked money. His mother, Mattie Powell, was an illegitimate heiress of the Schaefer brewing fortune, according to her son, and his father dabbled in Harlem real estate...
Charlestonese is not an intelligible distortion of the American language in the sense that the dialects of Boston, Brooklyn and Davenport, Iowa are. It pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses. Confronted with Charlestonese, philologists tremble...
...most desperate have wrenched themselves away from their ancestral holdings and fled west, joining a refugee stream of about 400 a day. Said one farmer who fled last week to West Berlin with his family, after hearing that he was to be arrested: "I won't be a slave on my own land...
...your report of my lecture at Yale University [Feb. 29], you alleged that I oppose the morality of altruism because it "leads to self-immolation, tolerance of the 'incompetent' common man, the welfare state, and ultimately to the slave labor camp." Nowhere in the text of my lecture will you find a phrase such as "tolerance of the 'incompetent' common man," or its equivalent, either in the context where you inserted it or in any other context. That phrase is a gross misrepresentation of my position...
...true, this would account for several thousand, but not the full 64,000. But Italian diplomats in Russia doubt that the Russians are now holding many Italians against their will. Perhaps many died in slave-labor camps. But most of them probably fell in battle or died of starvation or disease in the terrible winter retreat of 1942-43. Uncounted thousands of Germans, Russians and probably Italians lie buried in shallow graves hurriedly hacked in the frozen steppes across the Ukraine...