Word: slaving
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...political prisoners whom the Russians had interned since the end of the war in the infamous Nazi camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mühlberg, Torgau, Bautzen and elsewhere. About half of the prisoners died of cold, hunger, disease or beatings. Another 70,000 were shipped off to Russia as slave laborers. Last week, with the air of a man conferring a great and generous boon, Soviet General Vasily Chuikov announced that 15,038 of the remaining 29,632 internees would be freed, and the camps closed. Of the others, 13,945 would go into regular East German prisons. The Russians...
...Republicans in Spain. He was an independent radical who disliked party labels and instinctively fought all forms of dictatorship. His Animal Farm was a truly aimed, destructive satire on Stalin's Russia. His last book, bestselling Nineteen Eighty-Four, gave a chillingly ugly blueprint of a future slave state...
...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...
...frustrated lover secures the help of a crafty slave, who eventually guides the plot to a suitable ending. The slave's name is Pseudolus, which is also the title of the play and means "the confidence man." Albert L. Borowitz '51, who took the lead last year, too, plays the part...
...arctic snows, as in the Alabama bottoms, the slave's sentiment is: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child...