Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Washington need not have worried. The handsome pay of the Revolution was mostly on paper. (His men at Valley Forge were lucky if they had paper to wrap their feet against the cold.) Nor did soldiers in the first U. S. peacetime Army fare much better $82 a month for the ranking officer, $4 for privates in 1785. When the British returned for the War of 1812, privates' pay rose to $8 a month (plus $124 bounty for enlisting). After peace came in 1815, the U. S. treated its Army as usual, cut the privates...
Guards did the cooking, ate the same simple fare as their prisoners. With other guards trailing them, the onetime leaders of France were allowed to walk for an hour in the morning, an hour in the afternoon on the terraces and square. They could not walk near each other, nor converse together...
...Under threat of injunction, "chiselers" were forced to get back in line. But last week New York drinkers enjoyed the best price war yet. For the third successive week prices were 30 to 40% below fixed levels. Many New Yorkers, who had often spent $1 tunnel fare to buy their liquor in New Jersey, bought around the corner, rubbed elbows with Jerseyites buying in Manhattan. Fearing the price war might end any minute, they sent sales sky high...
Freshmen who complain about the fare in the Union today should remember the following statement which Mistress Eaton made while she was on the witness stand...
...their protocols of courtly love, were simply the elaborate double-talk of a theology driven underground. With them, in the 12th Century, passion took root in Europe. Thence sprang the whole of European literature, the whole shape and vocabulary of European mysticism, the whole ferocious timbre of European war fare, the whole possibility of such megalomaniacs as Hitler, the whole suffering wreckage of European love and marriage. De Rougemont believes there is an almost universal schizophrenia, a tide rip created in millions of individuals between two hopelessly incompatible systems: the socially responsible, Christian type of love ingrained by Family, Church...