Word: affluently
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...wonder, seriously, what many of us would do if our affluent society suddenly became nonaffluent and the people who pay our salaries suddenly became poor. Would we remain in the ministry ? (THE REV.) ROBERT W. DRECHSLER Pike Federated Church Pike...
Other Commonwealth leaders declared that Britain's realignment with Europe and away from her Afro-Asian partners will only deepen the chasm that divides the underdeveloped southern nations and the affluent Northern Hemisphere. Said Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan: "You cannot expect friendly coexistence between those countries that are deliberately kept backward and the ones that are bulging with wealth." Black Africa's "uncommitted" Commonwealth members, notably Tanganyika and Nigeria, stoutly rejected Europe's offer of "associate membership" in the Common Market on the theory that this would tie their policies to Western Europe, NATO...
...newcomers. Those old resentments were sharpened in the years after the fall of Dictator Juan Peron, whose policies brought ruin to Argentina's wheat-and-beef oligarchy. In the economic chaos, Argentina's Jewish colony, which now numbers 470,000, the largest in Latin America, still seemed affluent; Jews controlled a good share of the country's banking and finance, were even getting elected to Congress...
...never work for a woman with three children." The "servant problem" has long been a staple of female conversation among those who could afford the problem, but never, as today, have so many talked about so few. The huge increase in the number of working wives and of families affluent enough to afford domestic help has created a record demand for servants...
...Clad only in signet ring and cigar, some of Germany's richest and most famed industrialists also frolic in the buff at exclusive North Sea beaches. What they all have in common, explains an earnest West German sociologist, is a need to escape from the tedium of the affluent society-"the craving to have something that everyone else doesn't have-or vice versa in this case." Nudism in Germany centers on the family. A husband can rarely become a card-carrying nudist unless his wife also joins the Free Body Culture Association...