Word: outcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Commonwealth tar iff preferences. This, cried Opposition Leader Sir de Villiers Graaff, might be "a final mistake that may well lead to the end of the good life that you and I have known in this country." Added Progressive Party Leader Jan Steytler: "This republic will make us an outcast people." Before the polls opened on election morning, long rows of anxious voters stood impatiently to cast their ballots. At first the overwhelmingly anti-government vote from the big cities indicated that the republic might be defeated. But the tide turned in favor of Verwoerd when the platteland returns began...
...India's 56 million untouchables, the badge of their social inferiority is often the implement of their trade-a handleless broom made by binding together a bundle of twigs. Stooped over this broom, the lowly outcast daily sweeps India's streets and village squares, its courtyards and bedrooms. Not only does this lead to agonizing backaches, spinal curvature and a characteristic cringing posture, but also years of inhaling the clouds of dust stirred up contribute to an alarming pulmonary tuberculosis rate. Yet generations of foreign travelers, "asking why India's sweepers do not use a stand...