Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scotch as the status tipple in Europe. West Germany imported 504,131 gal. of Scotch in 1959; last year the total was up to 808,919 gal., and the estimates for 1962 run to 1,000,000. "It's the thing to drink if you want to belong to the Oberen Zehntausend [upper ten thousand]," explained a Bonn bartender. Smart Italians ask for their "ooeesky" Us do (straight) or con ghiàccio (on the rocks), and hosts pour their guests hefty slugs in large glasses, which are then nursed for the rest of the evening...
...books that brought him fame, from The Jungle (about the Chicago stockyards) to Boston (the Sacco-Vanzetti trial) and The Brass Check (the capitalist press), were really fictionalized expose journalism; they belong to social rather than literary history. It is not his fault that today he seems quaint and a bit comic, like Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. For better or for worse, the U.S. has taken a good deal of his advice. Strikers, for instance, whose cause Sinclair fought from Pasadena to Passaic, are no longer jailed out of hand by local police chiefs acting under the orders of the Chamber...
...Mama," she asked, "do all these people belong to me?" "No, my child," replied the Queen-Regent, "it is you who belong to all these people." It was a hard lesson for a strongwilled, privileged little girl of ten to learn, but Wilhelmina learned it well; long after her abdication in 1948, the people to whom she belonged continued to refer to her affectionately as "the Old Queen." Last week, at 82, the Old Queen died in her sleep at Het Loo, the palace where she had spent her first years and her last...
...Howdy Doody plastic uh bouncing clowns, a ball of uh Silly Putty and a rubber swan. Now, let me make a uh judgment on the dispersal of these items. Nine of the PT boats, two of the Yogi Bear uh beach balls, the uh ball of Silly Putty belong to uh Caroline. Nine of the PT boats, one of the Yogi uh Bear uh beach balls and the uh two Howdy Doody plastic bouncing clowns are Baby John's . . . The rubber swan is mine...
...mass of trvial bills at each session. Legislators have neither the time nor the information to make wise decisions on most local problems, and although the General Court must have the authority to curb abuses of local power, the right to govern local affairs and solve local problems must belong to the cities and towns of the Commonwealth...