Word: depending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strictly speaking there is very little plot. Franz Engel, wounded in the war and much older than his wife, is forced to depend on her completely while they await their visas in a stifling hotel in Cairo. His wife and son, Bubi, resort to all manner of strategems to obtain money enough to keep the family alive until the visas arrive. As the fight for survival becomes more and more difficult, their strategems become more and more degrading...
...case of the official who gives confidential information. Since the value of the thesis does not depend on who gave the information, the thesis-writer can call him simply "a government source," and any "scholar" who really wants to know the informant's name can write to the author requesting it. It is certainly absurd to restrict a whole thesis just because one small part of it is attributed to a man whose name need not be used. When a newspaper gets an "off-the-record" interview, it either uses the material without giving the interviewee's name or runs...
...gravel that will keep the sea water from entering the pumped-out basin. Gierlich hopes that the basin will eventually be filled to above sea level by the natural seepage of mountain water. Then the sea will no longer try to invade it. The industries and the people who depend on west basin water will never be able to use it at the old spendthrift rate, but at least they can be sure that their wells will not gush salt water...
...Britain and Britain's Crown derived most of all from the half-conscious recognition that Britain and the U.S. were among the few nations of the contemporary world which had governments solidly and deeply established in the assent of their people. Such governments, called "legitimate" by Guglielmo Ferrero, depend neither on force nor transitory popular favor. They must show a reasonable consistency between theory and practice, between the way the government is supposed to work and the way it actually works. They must be established long enough for their people to accept the mode of authority as natural...
...success of this plan would depend, like any other system of student-faculty relations--on the good faith of the Faculty members, and on the responsibility of the Student Council. But at least it is a workable improvement over the present system, and one that would benefit both the student body and the Faculty...