Word: fends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a truce between the sexes. Un like 13-year-olds, the boys no longer automatically go off together at a party, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Basically, Fourteen is a social animal. He is intrigued by the notion of "personality." When asked about her best friend, a girl will say: "I have a whole bunch of best friends." For the girls especially, this is the age of communication. School is a place to gossip in; home is a place to telephone from...
...majority in both parties which has supported our foreign policies over the fifteen years has thus far largely conceived of them as a series of arrangements which will fend off the aggressive and intrusive forces in the world outside and leave us free to work out our own American destiny in our own way. Implicit in such a concept is the persistent conviction that foreign affairs, except when war is imminent, are largely a marginal consideration...
Foreign affairs are largely a "marginal consideration," he said, which are thought of as "a series of arrangements to fend off the aggressive and intrusive forces in the world outside and leave us free to work out our own American destiny...
...government reneged on a promise to raise professionals' pay. The professionals had taken all they could: 8,000 of them went on strike. Doctors, judges, lawyers, engineers, teachers and civil servants walked out of clinics, courtrooms, lecture halls and government offices, leaving the untrained and unskilled to fend for themselves. Said striking professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: ''The future of Israel in the Middle East depends on its position as a state highly developed in industry, technology and science. Yet professional workers are involved in a constant and exhausting struggle for economic survival." Finance Minister...
...sophomores and juniors were left to fend for themselves. Although the owners of the private halls on the Gold Coast had sold out to the University during the war, a Gold Coast atmosphere still prevailed. Money determined the standard of living and only the club men had a regular place to eat. The three upper classes split up into tight cliques, and clubs and fraternity chapters sprang...