Word: thrall
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...more tradition's chains shall bind us, Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall...
...Attorney on an anti-racket platform and a hard-hitting little criminal lawyer named Raber were the spearheads of the attack. Ahead lay the city's first real chance to get convictions and break a spell which holds a bil lion dollars worth of business in thrall to crooked labor unions and their underworld "gorillas...
...brief period last week the Chicago Board of Trade supplanted the New York Stock Exchange as the dominant U. S. speculative force; the Pit held the Floor in thrall. Stock quotations closely followed grain prices, and the procession was almost steadily downward until the last day of trading...
...startling and dismaying. Their statistics revealed that 132,628 steelmen, or 53.4% of the whole number investigated, were still working ten hours or more a day. Of these 16,610 worked twelve hours, 5,320 worked eleven hours, the rest worked ten hours. The seven-day week held in thrall 66,712 steelmen, or 26.9% of the total number. These figures, abrupt and impersonal, called up before the churchmen visions of a race still living with hardly any leisure save sleep, spending lives in a dark servitude scarcely more desirable than actual slavery. To the more aggressive divines it seemed...
...stroke of apoplexy or a fit of angina pectoris is horrible to see, infinitely more horrible to pass through. The victim counts himself as captured by Death, thenceforth a tolerated thrall. A docility comes upon choleric, domineering men; an apathetic quietude rules their minds and bodies. They must be quiet, cease all activities, else they burst their heart or a blood vessel...