Word: givin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of the curbstone babble, a Brooklyn cab driver shrugged: "It's a corrupt city. You gotta expect things like this. Everybody in this city has his hand out. Everybody's takin'. Nobody's givin...
...Higgins is heading for a cooks' school, hopes to wind up in the galley of the Queen Mary. Collis wants to be a writer. Dickson expects to get a teaching job. But one Trinidadian, known simply as Strange Man, scoffs at education as a "rope they givin' you to hang yuhself wid." His own reason for emigrating is simple: "Well, 'tis simply because ah little tired. Ah sick, bored." London, for these island innocents, becomes the arena of a bitter struggle for survival. They face race discrimination, a housing shortage, a shortage of jobs. Before long...
...time is easygoing 1909, but even Danny senses that the going is hard for his folks. Grandfather Tom O'Flaherty is in his 70s and can hold his own only at the local booze parlor. Grandmother Mary is a termagant who keeps "givin' him hell . . . because that's the way you have to treat a man." Aunt Margaret is in love with a man who is not only married but a "black Protestant devil" besides, and pretty Aunt Louise is dying of TB. As for Uncle Al, a shoe salesman who foots most of the bills...
...signs; the boys had picked them up in front of the Barber Shop and then walked over to stand in two orderly rows flanking the police barrier. There was a little boy leaning on the barrier. He turned to one of the boys with the signs. "How much they givin' ya?" "Dunno. They ain't payin' us 'til after." The little boy looked over towards the barber shop. "Any left?" "Dunno. Wyn'cha go look?" The little boy started to brush through the crowd, then stopped and looked at the bigger boy. "You from 'round here?" "Nah," said the bigger...