Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down which Thomas Jefferson wanted to lead his nation - and to which his words still point- was no easy one. He wanted no paternalistic government to arrange its citizens' lives, no hidebound society to order their thoughts and actions. To him, the perfect state had "a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another . . . [and] leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement" -to live their lives in as tumultuous, glorious, ambitious a disorder as they please...
...start of World War I, Colonel Pétain, 54, was about to be retired. A careful planner and able artillery tactician, frugal with the lives of his men, he rose to command of the Second Army at the defense of Verdun in 1916. To him was credited the line: "They shall not pass." When the armies of the Crown Prince were crushed in 130 days of fighting that covered an advance of only four miles and cost 300,000 lives, Pétain emerged as a legendary hero. But numerous French leaders of the time later accused...
From the Royal Palace in Oslo the unassuming King used to pedal his bicycle almost every day. Now the palace is the home of Major Vidkun Quisling and an entertainment center for Nazi bigwigs, enjoying far greater luxury than frugal Norwegians would ever have expected of "Mr. King." Early in the morning, on the King's birthday, Nazi Gestapomen, Norwegian police and Quislingist Hirden (henchmen) began patrolling Oslo streets. But there was no trouble until the Nazis noticed that hundreds of Norwegians were wearing flowers in their buttonholes and tried to pluck some of them out. Then arrests...
When the late Dr. Guy Winfred Bailey, after 20 years as president of the University of Vermont, died in a Boston hospital last October, frugal Vermonters applauded his administration. They applauded too soon. He had raised the university's buildings and endowment from about $1,000,000 to nearly $9,000,000, left it with a trifling deficit of $33,502 on the books. But last week the university's financial affairs were in such a tangle that nine of the 18 trustees (among them: U.S. Senator Warren R. Austin) resigned and Vermont's Governor William...
...politics; in a period when Russians were Bolsheviks, Whites, or something in between, Alexander Alexandroff listened to arguments, rolling innumerable cigarets, said nothing. Wearing the same clothes until they wore out, he imperceptibly became Uncle Alex, the most familiar figure of the neighborhood-a portly man now, kindly but frugal, helpful, but insisting on being paid for it, his brown hair reduced to a faint fringe, stumping along with his blackthorn cane to a nearby restaurant, observing Sunday by changing his tie and eating a better meal...