Word: disposall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teenagers have assumed immense importance as consumers. Adolescent purchases now total $10 billion a year and the average teenager has $500 at his disposal annually--four times as much as in 1945. Quoting a trade journal, Packard suggested that "teenagers do not respect authority but do respect advertising." They constitute...
One player would not fall back on an overworked crutch and refused to call the spring relaxation he enjoys a "chance to study." Instead, he merely said, "I like to have my own time at my own disposal. If spring football were reinstated in the Ivy League, I would not...
When Brecht returned to East Germany, he had at his disposal all that a playwright could materially desire: his own theatre, his own company, virtually unlimited state support...and yet he failed to produce the 'positive' play expected of him. This incapacity to praise the world which the Socialist camp...
In New Square the rabbi's followers felt that they would at last be free to live unto themselves, without subjecting their schoolboys to jeers at their traditional black coats, round black hats, Orthodox Jewish earlocks. But they soon found that things were not that simple. Zoning laws and...
It also meant taking full advantage of the patronage at the President's disposal.* Kennedy is fond of Teddy Roosevelt's injunction to "speak softly and carry a big stick," and he applies it to domestic as well as foreign affairs. Since taking office, his soft words have...