Word: thralldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, that time has arrived. Nearly one of every two men on earth lives in thralldom to a brand of totalitarianism that condemns religion as the opiate of the masses?which has stirred some to heroic defense of their faith but has also driven millions from any sense of God's existence. Millions more, in Africa, Asia and South America, seem destined to be born without any expectation of being summoned to the knowledge...
...Labor Party no longer draws its support from cloth-capped workers clamoring to be delivered from the "thralldom of wagedom," as they called it. Its present and potential appeal is to middle-and working-class Britons who are skeptical of socialist dogma and hostile to any radical social experiments that might threaten their living standards. What they desperately want is more and better education, housing, hospitals and highways, and they fault the Conservative government for not meeting or even fully grasping their need. As a result, Britain's mood today, said former Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee, is once...
...always made an ideal ogre-a sinister greasy eminence who bamboozled the National Assembly into capitulating in 1940 and dragged Marianne in the muck by collaborating with Germany. When gallant Charles de Gaulle returned to slay this monster and (with some small American help) deliver France from thralldom, his countrymen threw Laval into a traitor's grave, hoping that five years of national guilt and failure might be buried with...
...Delta Sigma Pi fraternity sold a pint of blood to swell the Bagwell campaign chest. The statewide Bagwell Boosters number 12,000 members, more than Michigan's Citizens for Eisenhower at highest tide. Negroes have formed an Elephant Club for Bagwell. In Wayne County, the strongest Democratic thralldom (67%) north of the Mason-Dixon line, 4,500 Working Women for Bagwell are ringing doorbells, penning postcards, phoning friends to drum up votes. The long-dormant Michigan Federation of Republican Labor, revolving around former A.F.L. unions, has been revived...
...Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. has granted Nepal $12.5 million in aid. The U.S. has given $30 million in technical assistance; Communist China, Nepal's northern neighbor, has given $4,500,000, has promised an additional $29 million. But King Mahendra refuses to swap isolation for the thralldom of any great power, steadfastly pursues a policy of nonalignment...