Word: larders
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Overflowing Larder...
...Fine Arts in St. Louis, got a fellowship to Harvard. He had his first Manhattan show in 1940, and the critics hailed his down-to-earth pictures of Midwestern life as evidence of a promising new talent. But this still did not put food in the artist's larder. After war service as an Army combat artist and two years in Italy on a Fulbright grant, Radulovic came back to the U.S., had to take a job as a private detective to support himself in a Manhattan studio...
...Communist Deutschlands Stimme (Voice of Germany). Any East German who accepts the vile "beggar packs" of free U.S. food, wrote Hans, should be severely punished. Last week Communist officials took hungry Hans at his word, fired him for refusing to give up three Eisenhower parcels hidden in his own larder...
...cant and slogans, pressures and penalties. He went to a job picked for him by the government. At day's end he shuffled from the plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more hours' work of himself for no more pay. Plant managers and party...
...prosperous land; the' barns were trim, the houses were freshly painted and had that indefinable look a house wears when its people are not in want. It was Eisenhower's job to show what was beneath this prosperity, and beyond it. He had to show that the larder was not so full as it seemed, and that distant places like Korea or Indo-China were threatening the safety of the safest, newest farmhouse roof. He kept hammering away at high taxes, inflation, high prices, the explosive uncertainties and frustrating deadlock of the Korean...