Word: toil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hammer on the Tree. Montejo tells how, in 1868, he escaped the whips, chains and involuntary toil of a sugar plantation and lived a jungle-boy existence for twelve years. In 1880, when slavery was abolished in Cuba, he returned to human society. His descriptions of village life resurrect a forgotten world. He recalls work, fiestas, cock fights, fashions and trysts in the cane fields with a simplicity that imparts an aura of vitality and grace. Even the supernatural is treated in a tone as matter of fact as a fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact...
...Latin America's social ills, Paul declared, demands "progressive advantage for the classes today less favored and fairer imposition of the fiscal burden on the more well-to-do classes, especially upon those who own vast estates and on those classes who, with little or no real toil, realize huge incomes...
Unlike last year's coups, this one was welcomed by the people. They were not so much fed up with any corruption as with Juxon-Smith's fondness for lecturing them on "sweat and toil...
...solitary cells until death or release. So many died or went insane that in 1825 New York's Auburn Prison introduced hard labor-in utter silence. Until quite recently, the U.S. relied almost entirely on the spirit-breaking Auburn system of shaved heads, lock-step marching and degrading toil in huge, costly, isolated cages that soothed the public's fear of escapes...
...sure it was possible to read faster than anyone had thought, but the question of how was not yet answered. It took 8 years of toil and research, working with naturally fast readers before she began to find the answers. Eventually she developed a technique whereby the average student was able to learn to read 3 to 10 times faster...