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...creating a new class of powerful client landlords. French labor agents were uprooting growing numbers of Vietnamese from their ancient villages and shipping them to burgeoning rubber plantations, where the Vietnamese--the French took their names away and assigned them numbers--bitterly confronted a hard and tenuous life torn from their past. Also at this time, Vietnamese national pride was increasing, particularly among the growing class of Vietnamese civil servants who the French trained to administer but did not let rule. The French were swiftly eradicating traditional Vietnam; what would replace it was an open question...
...described the riot-torn Newark as a cordoned-off no-man's land. "I happened, unfortunately, to have been there," he added...
...typically torn woman, a wife for seven years by 1892, considered the ideal sexual routine to be "total abstinence with intercourse for reproduction only"-although she usually had an orgasm when she slept with her husband, and the next day felt "exceedingly well...
...Santa Ines cemetery, Mrs. Allende, torn between sorrow and fury, picked some flowers and laid them on the coffin. "Salvador Allende cannot be buried in such an anonymous way," she said in a hard voice to the gravediggers. "I want you to know at least the name of the person you are burying...
Both Dunlop and Rosovsky contrast nicely with the presidents under whom they served. Pusey needed a strong man in the Faculty, and found in John Dunlop the aggressive labor-relations background needed to overwhelm torn Faculty alliances. In the Bok Administration's early days, Dunlop kept the Faculty leashed while Bok established his footing...