Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember quite vividly seeing him in the newsreels step off a plane and proclaim that he had bought "peace in our time." The price he paid was Czechoslovakia. Needless to say, he did not buy peace. He merely rented it for one year, paying a rather exorbitant price...
...bizarre job interview opens the wonderful world of Collier's to the outsider. "Your job is not to sell," the interviewer told me. "We want to give these to people who would buy a home library within a few years anyway...
...Jones '70, president of the Center, said yesterday that the committee hopes to purchase the Harvard-owned building by the end of this school year. "We're organizing a private fund drive, contacting people interested in black culture and Afro-American studies, to raise the funds we need to buy the building," Jones said...
...great runners, good passers, and able defenders of their goal line. Harvard's a bit better defensively, but is clearly second best everywhere else. In "Tell Laura I Love Her." Tommy entered this stock car race, in which he had little chance, so that he might win and thus buy Laura a diamond ring. High aspirations, good try, and all that, but now Tommy's dead and Laura's an old maid. Dartmouth...
There is another reason for not hurting people. We should try to reaffirm the difference between people and property. One of the deepest philosophical bases of capitalism is the belief that a person is his property. Since you are what you can buy, your purchases are an extension of yourself. Indeed, as Marx writes in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, "If money is the bond which binds me to human life, and society to me, and which links me with nature and man, is it not the bond of all bonds? Is it not therefore also the universal agent...