Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week "Former Naval Person" Winston Churchill spat angry words against a high wind. The Labor government, said he, "has forced the British people to live in a fool's purgatory upon the generous grants of free enterprise, capitalist America . . . If we are to earn our daily bread in the world, it can only be through the strongest possible individual effort and ingenuity arising from conditions of freedom and fair play...
...soured early and permanently on the idea of opportunity in a capitalist society. A former boss of his remembers Bevan as a young miner in the Welsh seams. "He was a bad little brat," that man recalls. "He'd lie down right there beside the tubs rather than do one stroke over what was absolutely necessary to earn his minimum wage. Aroused other lads to do the same. 'Why should we sweat our guts out to fill capitalist bellies?' he'd say. You could do nothing with...
...decided to try to clean up the laundry problem. They came up with the idea of installing coin-operated washing machines in the House basements, allowing a student to run off his week's wash for a few cents. The University had previously faded the hopes of a local capitalist who wanted to install a row of these wash-while-you-wait contraptions, stating that a profit-making scheme could not operate on University property...
...young war veteran, broken by his experience, confused in heart and mind, will interrupt your talk about how democracy must be defended at all costs. He will ask: 'That is very nice talk, but tell me about tomorrow. Am I to take a gun and fight for capitalist America?' If you have time, you can go on and explain what capitalist America...
...tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged to Christina Sedgwick, niece of Atlantic Monthly Editor Ellery Sedgwick. By Marquand's account, his marriage brought him "face to face with the capitalist system...