Word: wretchedness
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At least six of the poets are former slave traders, including John Newton, the slaver turned evangelist amd abolitionist whose famous lyrics about God's "amazing grace . . . That saved a wretch like me" originated as a song of thanks for his deliverance from the sinfulness of slavetrading. Another former slave...
Even so, the overall effect of the book is nothing short of heartbreaking. Children are abused and gang-raped. Smart women are given away in marriage to Party members who are manipulative brutes. Others are forced to wallow in abject poverty, scraping together whatever they can to feed themselves and...
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek is famous for scraping the plaque off the exceedingly dirty teeth of the elderly men of Delft. He is still remembered today for his crude attempt at oral hygiene because he was the first person to describe bacteria and a host of other “cavorting...
Hence, Daschle's plan: Keep one eye on the growing tension over Iraq, one eye on a wretched Dow. If he (and the rest of the party) is lucky, this could be the year the Democrats hit two key issues at exactly the right time. It just depends on whether...
But on that wretched day in January 2001, Hussain found some small consolation in his secret. He is convinced that just a few meters away from where the Taliban were war dancing lies a third, giant Buddha hidden beneath the earth, wearing a blissful smile, unperturbed by the terrible destruction...