Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonowners of a washer, TV set, refrigerator, etc., my family and I are free souls and glad of it. I suspect other struggling young college couples may join us in feeling decidedly smug towards the poor gadget-ridden middle class. I am beginning to firmly believe that poverty is bliss...
...From his travels afield Nixon, along with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, reported that the President still had a vast fund of popularity and respect-but that he was not making the most of it. Most of all, Nixon sensed that the rest of the U.S. was ready to join Washington in going to work...
Accompanying Ike to Manhattan for his speech to medical educators (see MEDICINE), Mamie Eisenhower passed up the banquet for My Fair Lady. Ike's speech finished, he whizzed over to Broadway, slipped into the darkened theater in time to join Mamie for the final 40 minutes. Recognized by few in the audience, Ike and the First Lady left just before the final curtain, were outside being cheered by a crowd when Stage Manager Biff Liff came on stage and wrongly announced their presence inside. Next afternoon, Mamie saw Auntie Mame, dropped backstage at intermission to greet her old friend...
...institute in Nürnberg. It was a backwater existence. Evenings Erhard dined heavily on Franconian smoked meat and dumplings, played the piano or took a hand at Doppelkopf (a four-handed card game) with his institute associates. After World War II broke out, local Nazis pressed Erhard to join Hitler's Labor Front. He refused, lost his post and founded an institute of his own. Friends in the German national association of manufacturers got him such jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed-Out Persons." Convinced after Stalingrad that Hitler must lose, Erhard drafted weighty studies...
...Plague (1947), a parable of the Resistance couched in terms of a city under sentence of bubonic death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned to attack the pestilence of modern revolutionary ideologies: "Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police or folly." To curb the "madness of excess" which breeds the "hangmen" of the extreme left or right, Camus counseled a return...