Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concierges of Neuilly's swank apartment houses proselytize domestic servants. In workers' districts party propaganda does not shy from argot, but Sorlin takes care that his organizers mind their grammar and diction, lest bourgeois members be offended...
...loosed a popular hue & cry. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "The poor were seized with panic, since it cut off their only convenient, practical, inexpensive way to care for their health." Tongue-in-cheek Columnist Rubem Braga, in Diretrizes, suggested "installation of public injection centers, thus permitting the formation of long queues which could join with all the other queues into which the population has been marshaled...
...mentally embraced the many mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts of the many men buried beneath those crosses, and thanked God that at least one of us could be there to pay at least a humble tribute. I wished I could tell them that they need never worry about the care of their loved ones' bodies, for I, who am supposedly conditioned to the "exigencies" of the service and expecting much less, was surprised to find such well-kept cemeteries...
...midsummer, U.S. Homes expects to be turning out five houses a day. It already has orders for several hundred. Said Bishop happily: "The housing shortage should take care of our immediate future...
...strike had approached the proportions of the British general strike of 1926, which had boomeranged on labor. He would not wanf that. There was a point beyond which he did not care-or dare-to go, which he had carefully calculated. He fed on discontent but he had no stomach for disruption...