Word: down-and-out
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...different situation, barter could make a comeback among the down-and-out. In communities that had no standard unit of exchange (e.g. prisoner-of-war camps in the World Wars), people commonly substituted consumer goods with universal value for cash. Under this system, we might have "Brother, can I bum a sandwich, cigarette...
...poor themselves, in a stunning inversion of Scripture, have taken the place of the demons and Pharisees. Well-fed intellectuals trip over one another in their eagerness to castigate the down-and-out as muggers, sluts, and even -- in the case of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their new book, The Bell Curve -- retards. No political candidate dare step up to a lectern without promising to execute, imprison and snatch alms from the hands of the "underclass...
...mounted its first drive after receiving the ball on its own 28-yard line with 5:48 left in the first quarter. Using a powerful one-two combination of down-and-out swing passes and hard off-tackle running, Harvard pecked its way to the Lion four-yard line. There, tailback Eion Hu took a hand-off off left tackle for the game's first score...
...little more than a sinecure for the low-skilled and occupationally impaired. Of course no husband dares look his wife in the eye -- often bloodshot from sleep deprivation -- and tell her that she "doesn't work." Yet somehow the insult is assumed to be forgivable when directed at the down...
Edzard substitutes corporate intrigue in the City of London for the back-stabbing court, and life on the streets, down-and-out, for the rural idyll of the play. This revision provokes not only the normal irksome inconsistencies of contextual changes, like holding a boxing match in the foyer of the Bank of England, or finding shepherds and their flocks roaming the squats of central London, but also more serious thematic contradictions. In the play, the Forest of Arden represents our collective escapist fantasy--the dream of a life free from complication or care. Homelessness does not play the same...