Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more or less free European trade in all directions and relatively heavy purchases of consumer goods. "Cripps," one observer explained, "took the line of the husband whose wife is spending too much money, and who favors a reduction in her allowance. Schuman took the line that the husband should earn more money...
Last week "Former Naval Person" Winston Churchill spat angry words against a high wind. The Labor government, said he, "has forced the British people to live in a fool's purgatory upon the generous grants of free enterprise, capitalist America . . . If we are to earn our daily bread in the world, it can only be through the strongest possible individual effort and ingenuity arising from conditions of freedom and fair play...
...capitalist society. A former boss of his remembers Bevan as a young miner in the Welsh seams. "He was a bad little brat," that man recalls. "He'd lie down right there beside the tubs rather than do one stroke over what was absolutely necessary to earn his minimum wage. Aroused other lads to do the same. 'Why should we sweat our guts out to fill capitalist bellies?' he'd say. You could do nothing with...
Although the majority of British doctors were originally opposed to it, 86% have joined the plan. Not all have done so because they wanted to, but because they could not earn enough money from private practice any more. Few can afford to hold out. Said one fashionable specialist: "Let's not be blind. In a few years, there'll probably be no private practice at all. All you do by not joining the plan is eventually to commit hara-kiri...
Doctors should earn their living by health rather than by sickness," declared Dr. Alan M. Butler last night during his argument in support of President Truman's compulsory health insurance program. He spoke at a discussion sponsored by the AVC in Phillips Brooks House...