Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June, was lambasted as dishonest and immoral by a prominent Soviet literary magazine in December. Still, Yevtushenko has not shaken the old charges of selling out. "The way American reporters see it, if an artist here is not in a mental hospital, that means he is a government slave," he says. "That's too simplistic...
Those persons who sought to abolish slavery were told that to do so would wrongfully deprive the slave holders of their constitutional right to own property. Furthermore, they were warned that abolition would provoke unprecedented hostility toward the freed slaves and their supporters...
...life-style has been to move into a new home in Los Altos that was modeled after a Welsh castle. It has a sauna and Jacuzzi in the master bedroom and an elaborate security system. Hwang still works a six-day week. Says he: "My executives call me a slave driver. But I tell them to look at Osborne, and they don't say anything." Adam Osborne headed a fast-growing personal-computer firm that announced plans to go public last winter but ended up filing for bankruptcy in September...
...suspended tire and beaten with cables and whips. In one testimony, a 15-year-old boy told of being whipped and threatened with blindness if he did not reveal where his father was. Another student described a soundproof torture room in Aleppo that featured a machine called "the black slave." Recounted the youth: "When switched on, a very hot and sharp metal skewer enters the rear, burning...
...There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities...