Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later, the eleven aging paladins emerged from the council rooms with something of the look of driven elephants. Beaming at their heels came Dave Dubinsky. The A.F.L., President William Green announced, would send five delegates to a London meeting in the fall to establish a new world federation of free labor. For Dubinsky and his friends, it was a full victory after a determined four-year fight...
...feature of the National Health Service Act is that all foreigners, whether they pay British taxes or not, are entitled to free treatment under the National Health Service Act. Last spring a doctor in Calais complained that his French patients were crossing the Channel to get free British treatment; some were reported to have resold their free dentures and spectacles on the Continent...
...workers of the Canadian Baptist Mission have spread good works across the windswept barrens of the Bolivian altiplano. The mission has built schools and hospitals for the poverty-haunted tin miners to whom it ministers, given out free medicines, taught converts to speak
...Cola company calls "our own individual EGA." By last week its Coke selling campaign had proved so successful that five bottling plants were clanking away in Milan, Leghorn, Venice and Rome. Several hundred thousand bottles were sold daily, and the Communists rightly feared it was another victory for U.S. free enterprise. Complained one Red: "Yesterday I went into my favorite wineshop and found three people there. All were drinking Coca-Cola. The humiliation...
...fine, large-featured, dim-eyed, bronze-coloured, shaggy-headed man is Alfred," wrote Carlyle in 1840, "dusty, smoky, free and easy; who swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he was also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years...