Word: beggarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wacky and it was wistful, like a beggar's dream. Cried sallow Santi Paladino, Italy's newest peddler of political nostrums: "With a federation of the United States, Italy and some other nations, and a lot of atomic bombs, there would be no wars. This would solve all of Italy's problems...
...says Paladino dreamily, "we do not ask for an alliance with America, as a beggar would...
...Every beggar now has two or three 100-yen notes, once as rare in Japan as a $100 bill in the U.S. Half-yen notes are used as nose-wipers. A group of men spent 35,000 yen on a night's spree at the seaside resort of Atami, taking care to bring their own slaughtered cow for food. Five pounds of black-market rice would fetch 5,000 to 7,000 yen (official price...
...with an inexperienced three-man faculty and 18 boys, Kent School opened its doors in a ramshackle Connecticut farmhouse. Father Sill was vowed to lifelong poverty, chastity and obedience, but where Kent School was involved, he proved a shameless beggar, a tireless publicist, a resourceful promoter and a born teacher of boys...
...necessary possible. Monarchy is quite indispensable to France. A state like France cannot afford the luxury of a republic, for then all the country's resources are squandered for a party-whichever party happens to be in power. France can stagger along for a while, as a beggar, but she cannot continue as a great nation that way. ... So long as I have a tongue to speak and a hand to write, I shall go on repeating what I have said for 50 years. We are not bestial enough to abandon the truth...