Word: downtrodden
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...other kinds of happiness, too. We find them sitting quietly in a park, or by a window, watching people go about their lives. In New York, we?ve learned that going to work, seeing the same people and sitting at a familiar desk can, rather than make us feel downtrodden, make us feel free. We are alive, we are going about our lives, we are making a statement...
...execrated Tom Paine. He contemptuously referred to George III as "old Nobodaddy" and eagerly awaited his death. In an age when any utterance of disloyalty to the Crown could be and was severely punished, Blake was fearless in expressing his views. His sympathies flew to the weak and the downtrodden. He was always on the side of liberty and instinct. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he wrote in the Proverbs of Hell. And also: "Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." (The latter sounds more like Sade than the gentle poet...
Stiglbauer has a great talent for enlisting aid--from clergy, police, civic groups, parents, teachers, businesses and even higher powers. That talent has helped transform this once downtrodden school into one of the highest-achieving in South Carolina. "Often educators don't like to ask outsiders for help," explains Stiglbauer, who took over Hand six years ago. "But I say, 'Let them lift...
Outdoor Resorts is, well, a motor-home camp. Not a trailer park, though, so banish those images of downtrodden migrants from The Grapes of Wrath, of clotheslines tied to dented and dusty vans, scruffy patches of grass and malodorous toilets. That's not Indio. The 424 campsites wrap around a golf course. At the center of the complex is a clubhouse with an Olympic-size swimming pool, four tennis courts and a health spa with masseuse. Gardeners tend a cheerful landscape of date palms, bougainvillea, hibiscus and petunias...
...also the world's fault that so many young people in the Middle East, South Asia and Central Asia face such extraordinary hardships that joining militant groups is the only way out of a life of misery. Many of the terrorist networks' new recruits are downtrodden refugees, fleeing from places like Afghanistan, who find refuge in militant training schools, such as those in northwest Pakistan. These schools offer comfortable housing, clothing, three meals a day and an education (none of which the United Nations was able to provide in the refugee camps). Having been let down by everyone else...