Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the individual would have been greatly weakened...Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has not been towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity...Few people have yet considered its implications--that is, the kind of world-view, the kinds of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors...
...will one day follow Hong Kong's example and rejoin the mainland. At present that seems highly unlikely. In a vituperative denunciation of the agreement, Nationalist China's Premier Yu Kuohwa offered sanctuary to the people of Hong Kong, who, he said, were being forced "into a slave system of Communist totalitarianism...
Even black servicemen were caught up in the spirit of the white man's crusade. Despite a history of slave labor, Jim Crow laws and racism in the ranks, blacks fought with distinction. Recognition for many was a long time coming. The 761st Tank Battalion, all black except for fewer than a dozen white officers, battled Germans for 183 days without relief. The outfit had to wait 33 years before its veterans could persuade the White House to award them a Presidential Unit Citation...
...much valued in our age," Cary Verney, a lady of the Restoration court, lamented. The playwright Aphra Behn concurred. The 17th century's female model, she said, was "that dull slave call'd a Wife." Among her fellow rebels, Fraser reports, were she-authors, she-preachers, even she-soldiers, as well as stubborn widows, unruly prostitutes and acid-tongued ladies of the court...
...puffy, smooth face and black button eyes of a rag doll left in grandma's attic), but befuddles her with his excesses at work and play. He fights with his possessive father (Roy Dotrice) and with the arbiters of art in Joseph's court. He is a slave to fashion and passion. His genius continues to consume him, like a virus he is unable or unwilling to shake; at the first performance of The Magic Flute he faints dead away at the piano. Portrait of the artist as a great man: while his wife and father bicker over...