Word: workless
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...remembered the long, workless summers when his father, deafened by years near the roaring "shaker" screens, would get him to listen for the whistle that was the call back to the mines. If it blew, there would be work-and singing in the Travis house that night...
...said, "make poor whites." So do poor blacks. "The Negro does not need a house," said Malan. "He can sleep under a tree. So he can work for less pay than the white man. The Negro has a job while the white man walks the streets foodless and workless...
Peddle decried the "athletic scholarships, physical education courses, and workless jobs offered by out Ivy League competitors...
...multiple causation" theory. The metals in the Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...
...assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great city which breeds such a population. . . . Luccheni said with his stiletto to the symbol of power, 'Hey, what...