Word: slaving
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Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
When it was all over, perhaps 7,000,000 people had disappeared, either into the GPU mass burial pits or into the vast slave camps of Siberia. But Stalin could rest: he had destroyed many innocent people, but with the good grain he had also burned the chaff of the old Bolshevik Party, the chief challenge to his power. He himself slept well. The new generation of party members, which he set about recruiting and educating, were functionaries, meek & mild bureaucrats, with a mortal fear in their bowels...
...track man is almost a slave to the sport. He is expected to spend most of the fall getting in shape for the winter season; then build up in the winter for a big outdoor season. It takes as lot of time and work, and certainly a disproportionate liking for the sport...
...bring him down like a sack of hypocrisy. More's the pity that she writes pages of nonsensical epitaphs over her bleeding targets. The chip on her shoulder makes her believe that every man is as autocratic as a Turk and every female as malleable as a slave. Many of her protestations would strike even the inmates of a harem as being behind the times...
...troops the reasons for their presence in Europe in 1944, General Patton said: "We have to fight because we have committed ourselves to fight at the side of our allies. We have to fight because we cannot live in a world which is half free and half slave. We have to fight because if we didn't fight, as our fathers have fought, we should all be as naked as jay birds...