Word: debauched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy burden of Government regulations, the entry of so many untrained first-time workers into the labor force, and the decline of research and development, in part because managers have concluded that inflation makes the payoff too distant, too uncertain. Turgid productivity, which aggravated inflation and contributed to the debauch of the dollar in world markets, is as serious as any problem that the nation faces as it enters the 1980s...
...decade since the Great Depression has borne the stagflation contradiction of no growth amid rampaging inflation, the can't do trauma of receding productivity in the nation that was long the world's cornucopia, the reality of an energy shortage in the land of supposedly boundless resources, and the debauch of a dollar that once was "as good as gold...
...made the first translations of Shakespeare into French. Now he is alarmed that he may have subverted la gloire de France by recognizing "sparks of genius" in someone "so barbarous, so low, so unbridled and so absurd" as William Shakespeare. Voltaire has decreed that the scenes of debauch at the Danish court in Hamlet could only have been written by "a drunken savage...
...exactly a household word, the Grant-in-Aid people have decided that the best thing to accompany a temperance play with is bear, and they're selling it at the enticing price of $10 a glaza it almost reminds one of the days of England's great gin debauch in the early Industrial Revolution when modern methods of gin distilling were introduced and made it the preferred spirit of the working classes. For a couple of pence you got not only enough gin to knock you out till morning but a pallet of hay and a place to sleep...
...prison" and that hell knows no torment like an Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted beds, wipe out the son's inheritance at roulette and, with a nasty sneer, take over the manor himself...