Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even try to tell the young people that such things are wrong. "You must understand Swedish mentality," said the Catholic. "They are incapable of imagining a world where there are not unwed mothers, where abortions and birth control are not necessary. They say, 'Since these things exist, then let us do something constructive about them.' They don't believe it is possible to change human nature. They attack the problem as a sociological and medical one." "But what will this lead to?" I asked. "After all, sexual morality is basic to Western ethics." The man shook...
...present minimum wage legislation, however, exceptions ridicule the rule. Exemptions perforate Fair Labor Standards, accurately reflecting the strength of America's employer lobbies. for several million workers--laundrymen, clam diggers, tailors, delivery truck drivers--minimum wages do not exist. Although the Lehman proposal covers chain-store workers for the first time, it continues the exclusion of important groups, among them farm laborers...
...longer wanted . . . You would be well advised to simply take the attitude that your mother is going through a sulky, pouty, emotional reaction . . . If you should give in to her now and go and make yourself subservient to her, you would create an unhappy situation that might exist for years . . . I would suggest that you . . . write her . . . pleasant little notes. Send her things. Do everything in your power to show her that you love her . . . Just remain steady and be as nice as possible, and at all times be kindly and forgiving...
Miller, who refused to appear at the University of Washington because of the ban on Oppenheimer, said that the request for outside scholars to drop their boycott was "silly." We will join them when proper conditions exist and theses are up to Schmitz now," he added...
...theme of realism. The choice, he said, was not between an armed and an unarmed Germany; it was between a free France and a France dominated by the Soviet Union. Said he: "We must reinforce the West. We must strengthen its cohesion. Before coexisting, we must first exist . . If this rearmament is not done with us, it will be done without-or perhaps against us." If France insisted on standing alone, "one day, fate will make a choice for us-between slavery without hope or liberation from our ruins...