Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things as they are," bad as they are. "I don't like farming for the Government," admitted a troubled Minnesota wheat farmer. "I know it's wrong. But it's not for me to figure out what should be done. I have four children to take care of. As long as the Government pays for it, I'll raise as much wheat as I can." The farmers, concluded Lubell, are "waiting for someone other than themselves to blow the whistle and say the party is over...
William Alfred was confronted with deadlines when he wrote poetry for a magazine at the age of 18. "And I always put everything off untill the night before --as someone does with a term theme," he said. "Maybe that's why I don't care much for the poetry when I look back over...
Carey's argumentation throughout is utterly sound; and on only a couple of extremely minute points would I care to disagree with him. There is no one who could not derive much profit from a careful perusal of this pocket-sized but capacious volume. (There is, in the above remarks, a glaring error in punctuation. Did you notice...
...experts" set impossibly high production quotas for the communes, drove man and beast so hard that abnormal numbers of cattle and water buffalo began to die of overwork. As for the peasants, reported Canton's Nan-fang Duily sadly, "quite a few commune members were found not to care very much about production quotas." By last June. Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen found himself obliged to report that, so far in 1959, land planted to food grains was running 1,300,000 acres behind 1958-a fact that promised to cost China's already hungry populace at least...
...turn at the wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping, illegal possession of firearms, assault, violation of child-labor laws, failure to register the manufacture and sale of a poisonous product, and income tax evasion. Said he: "I am a freethinker. What can the outside world offer my family...