Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prince ordered me to come before him and told me that I was no longer a free man but had been sold as a slave. Several years later, the prince ordered his overseer to sell me in the slave market of Jidda. I was taken there in a truck. I entered a large, obscure hall. There were many men and women gathered there-slaves like myself. I managed to escape . . . Several times I tried to slip aboard boats leaving for Africa. But the police were on my tracks. Nevertheless, I managed to stow away in a cargo ship and reached...
...booming petroleum, building trades and cannery industries, where 230,000 employees got up to 10? more an hour in flat pay raises. New York's 3,500 A.F.L. tugboatmen got a 17? wage-welfare package, with 8? for straight hourly wage increases; and some 20,500 truck drivers in Philadelphia won themselves a whopping 30? more an hour, bringing their wages to $2.05 an hour...
...Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every type, decade and nationality, is a chagrined refusal to have any truck with a man who never went through college...
...truck driver was probably not alone in his wish, for the program of the evening was anything but light entertainment. Each of the seven students belonged to what the group calls a "minority"-and each had come to describe, in a highly personal way, how it feels to be a member of a minority...
...What does the Negro want?" asked Negro Graduate Student Nathan Huggins. "If there is any single answer I think it lies in the definition of the word dignity." And so it went through other speeches and an hour-long question period afterward. Much to his own surprise, the baldheaded truck driver stayed the evening...