Word: lacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...values with them, the immigrant Irish, Germans, Italians and Jews became strangers in a new land, suffered from the cultural conflict, found it hard, at first, to escape from slums. Now this is the Puerto Rican plight. Says Fitzpatrick: "The poverty of Puerto Ricans, their language handicap, their lack of sophistication about mainland city life, leave them, at this moment, particularly exposed to exploitation. The things that gave a man or woman dignity and honor in a Puerto Rican village are greeted with ridicule in New York...
...News's inquiring photographer asked six New Yorkers a $64,000 question: "Would you have any qualms about appearing on a [rigged] quiz show?" Answered five out of six: No, I'd take the money. No amount of public naivete or cupidity could excuse the networks' lack of responsibility. Said CBS's Stanton: "As I see it with the benefit of hindsight, we should have been more thoughtful and critical...
...last three years, with a floor of 65% of parity. This year market prices are poor. Farm storage space is already so taxed that farmers will have to sell much of their crop in the open market at prices as low as 90? per bu., for the lack of a place to store it. Averaged over three years, the lower prices mean that a 4?-to-6? drop is possible next year in the price-support level...
...opening words of this book-"How can you stand it?"-bear witness to Author McCarthy's candor. She itemizes the disadvantages in which Florence is rich: the noise, the occasional rudeness, the oppressive summer heat, the lack of nighttime pleasures, the daytime drabness. It is true, she says, that because of the frightening traffic, "Many of the famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal...
Taste & Judgment. In Venice Observed, Author McCarthy dealt with a flashier subject, and it was the more fascinating book, but Florence supplies a lack that most visitors feel: it is an exercise in taste and judgment...