Word: slaving
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...supporting a church that teaches that contraception is a sin, we Catholics are contributing to a system that brings premature death and suffering to millions. Could it be that contemporary American Catholics are as blind and self-serving as were the sincere Christian slave owners of the 18th and 19th centuries...
...disquieting. Nissen might be unsentimental enough to piss on his slave woman, but he'd lick the shoelaces of any, athlete godlike enough to play for the Pats...
...setting is the fictitious country Cuyama, "a tract of land perched uneasily on the sloping shoulder of South America, a degree or two north of the Equator." Aubrey St. Pierre, whose once illustrious family grew wealthy with the aid of sugar-cane plantations and slave labor, harbors guilt and runs a bookstore; the Cuyamese citizens, whose culture he hopes to elevate, stay away in droves. Aubrey's wife Dina broods on her mixed Hindustani and Portuguese origins and roundly hates her native grounds: "Nothing worthwhile had ever been created on this sterile patch of earth perched on the edge...
...years ago in Birmingham, he was raised in Willingboro, N.J., and trained in Houston. Where Lewis is a standard of physical strength, Jesse Owens was a symbol of human struggle, against not only poverty and bigotry but tyranny as well. Owens' father was a sharecropper, his grandfather a slave. Carl's father and mother coach track. "Jesse was the greatest thing to me other than life's breath," says Bill Lewis, a fit and handsome man in a cowboy hat, who prizes a photograph of Owens posing with ten-year-old Carl and a cousin. Visiting a small meet, Owens...
...number of intersections along about dawn nearly every day, a knot of Mexicans forms. They are in the country illegally and, to them, getting rich tomorrow means hooking a job for as much as 20 bucks. Locally these pockets are called "slave markets." You want your lawn mowed, some boscage trimmed; you drive by, wave a bill, they hop in. They are industrious, trustworthy, and at night they melt back into an area known to all as East Los Angeles, although it is an area much larger than the 7.4 sq. mi. the city defines as East Los Angeles...