Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Tories agreed. On the other hand, the ordeal undeniably produced a leader of courage and principle who believes, in Home's own words, that the government should never be content just to do "what people will stand for," but instead should unflinchingly "tell them what they ought to stand for." Says Tory Backbencher Nigel Birch: "His clarity and integrity shine out, and that's what you require in a leader. With his dignity and restraint, Home will show up Harold Wilson for a cheap crackerjack...
...stuffy intellectual accountant who suspects his spouse of being unfaithful. She is a jazzy emotional urchin less than half her husband's age. Their teacher-pupil marriage is threatened with a permanent recess. Peripatetic Philosopher Cristoforou teaches them the saving lesson that love in marriage is content rather than form, the sharing of experience rather than the bandying of words...
Smyth moved to Delaware, bought up Dover's weekly newspaper and converted it to a daily. He watched sorrowfully as circulation fell overnight from 4,200 to 2,000; Doverites seemed quite content with the two Du Pont-owned papers published in nearby Wilmington, the Journal and the News. There were also other growing pains. The International Typographical Union tried to organize Smyth's pitifully small stable of printers. But Smyth put his back up, imported substitutes from as far off as Texas, and after two years the I.T.U. furled its last picket sign and slunk away...
...secretive, inbred and inconspicuous company, Cargill (pronounced with a hard g, as in fish-gill) is a $1.5 billion-a-year giant with more than enough wheat capacity to handle the entire sale of 150 million bushels to Russia. Despite its size and predominance, it will have to be content with somewhat less than that-the Administration has declared that no company can have more than a 25% bite of the deal...
...state-owned housing projects. But its biggest prize would be the new products and whole new industries that science and socialism are to create. The state would also control the cadres of scientists and reserves of knowledge that his government would call forth. Wilson says he is content to let established industries "wither away" in private hands. "All he wants," remarked one observer, "is the growth stocks...