Search Details

Word: slaving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...They are saying Afro-American history begins with the slave trade: they are saying Afro-American history is a slave history, and Afro-Americans are a slave people...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Alumni Committee Launches Campaign To Boost Official Support for Afro-Am | 4/15/1982 | See Source »

Still, this custom confutes nature. In every other such situation, the borrower becomes a slave to the lender, the social weight of the debt so altering the balance of a relationship that a temporary acquisition turns into a permanent loss. This is certainly true with money. Yet it is not at all true with books. For some reason a book borrower feels that a book, once taken, is his own. This removes both memory and guilt from the transaction. Making matters worse, the lender believes it too. To keep up appearances, he may solemnly extract an oath that the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would You Mind If I Borrowed This Book? | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

TORONTO, Ontario--Several female students at the University of Toronto last month offered their services to a predominantly male clientele as part of a "slave section" fundraiser: the campus tri-weekly newspaper. The Varsity, reported recently...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Slave Auction | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

...What were the independent governments set up in the Third World revolution but an attempt at bringing dignity, freedom and food to people always denied the first two, and often the third as well? But how many have been successful in breaking the bonds of subjection--certainly not Cuba, slave to Moscow; certainly not Chile, a wholly-owned ITT subsidiary; not Jamaica, or Ethiopia, or Gustemain. And the New Left and the civil rights movement and the Freedom Summer and Moratorium Day and SDS and smoking dope--what did they mean except this world stinks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/3/1982 | See Source »

Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's architect and builder of monuments to the Third Reich who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, used slave labor to keep the German war machine running. The only Nazi leader to admit his guilt at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, he served 20 years before his release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images: IMAGES: Farewell | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | Next