Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fomented antagonism against Mexico by statements made in European capitals. She has criticized the Mexican Constitution and the structure of laws based thereon. She has declared that some day downtrodden Mexican women will rise and assert themselves. Just now she is safely out of Mexico but Mexican indignation still runs high against Mme. Alexandria Kollontay...
Since 70% of Bolivians are Indians, and since those who revolted last week are of the ancient and once imperial Inca strain, their rioting, burning of haciendas, and murdering of numerous white landlords could be considered the acts of a downtrodden people, righteously aroused at last...
...delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status, but theirs is a voice that speaks for India; vast, three times more populous than the U. S., downtrodden, inarticulate...
Harvard's break with Princeton, commonly known as Princeton's break with Harvard, is really a blessing in disguise for a lot of downtrodden football teams and coaches who want some excuse to break off relations with a traditional rival that is hard to beat. There are many such schools and coaches that can now find the way, thanks to Harvard...
...judge from the cries of the politicos the Filipinos are downtrodden and all but enslaved by the brutal and rapacious Uncle Sam. The facts are that they enjoy as much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the Philippines are Americans. These have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned...