Word: voiceless
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...great-grandfather goes to Hawaii at about the same time to clear the land and plant sugar cane. He resents the rule that forbids talking on the job: "How was he to marvel adequately, voiceless? He needed to cast his voice out to catch ideas." Lonely, overworked, far from their families, the China Men dig a large hole in a rich Hawaiian cane field, kneel around it and chant. " 'I want my home,' the men yelled together. 'I want home. Home. Home. Home. Home.' " Then they cover up the soil, trusting that the cane, when grown...