Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True extent of the suppression of the German people, of their obsession with being downtrodden, remains invisible until they are given even the slightest jot of authority. Meekest lambs in submission become vindictive tomcats in office. Last week Hermann Göring took official and stern notice of this phenomenon, even more apparent since war work has added many a new name to the official rolls, in a proclamation on bureaucracy...
...guns and ammunition and a shortage of food and clothes. When that time rolls around, don't you think it would be a good idea for Mr. Roosevelt to call his congressmen in and say: "Boys, we've spent several billions trying to help the poor and downtrodden get on top where the big fellows are (or used to be) but it don't seem to be getting us any place. What do you think about turning this relief business around by voting a few billions and turn it over to business and industry (such...
They were elated, too, over the visit to their capital of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked...
...blackfaced Caesar tries his best, now & then, to seem degenerate and willful. The strong man, Ferrovius, loudly debates whether to fight back at his oppressors or practice Christian nonresistance. The lion remembers to growl. The martyrs try to look downtrodden. But to no avail. Androcles fails to transmit a serious social message, for the good reason that it is not a serious play. Shaw's Androcles is a whimsical fellow. His Caesar is a playboy. His frisking lion is fed more gags than Christians. His martyrs are as exhilarated as though they were going to see a show rather...
Sirs: I am getting distinctly fatigued with all the furor, perpetrated by the well-meaning uninformed and the less altruistic, dues-collecting labor agitators, about the sad plight of the ill-fed, downtrodden sharecropper [TIME, June 29]. Aside from exceptional and infrequent disastrous years of severe drought, floods and the like (and this merely goes to prove the rule), a farmer cannot be starved to death on the ground. Having been reared on a plantation, I know that the majority of tenants absolutely will not raise a garden on the plot always provided free of charge unless the landlord...