Word: hardships
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Williams must love to coach, for he pursues his profession at considerable personal hardship. The numerous administrative details of modern football leave a coach little free time during the season, anyhow. For Josh, the hard grind has been made even more lonely because Mrs. Williams and their two daughters have stayed at home near Pittsburgh...
Taxes. The excess profits tax will probably be allowed to die in June. Excise taxes, long under attack by liquor and other industries, may be lowered where hardship can be proved. The 12% boost in personal income taxes, approved a year ago, may be allowed to expire in December 1953. But businessmen were well aware that the U.S., now running a $10 billion deficit, can only hope for real tax relief if the Republicans find a way to cut waste in military and civilian spending...
Slow Cure. In Mesa, Ariz., Justice of the Peace Jack Hunsaker decided that jailing drunken drivers "only works a hardship on wives and children," declared that from now on he would sentence them to church for ten consecutive Sundays...
...abuses of liberty have not been confined to this field. In the Latva incident, for example, Judge Wyzanski of the United States Federal Court ordered the deportation of a man who once gave ninety cents to the Communist Party. The court stated that, despite the hardship involved, the McCarran Law left no choice in the ruling...
...most wretched of the poor in wretched Pusan know that things could be worse. The 600,000 refugees in the city are people who accepted every hardship to flee the North Korean Communists. On Pusan's grimy walls there are no signs denouncing Wall Street imperialism or urging the Yanks to go home...