Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chronicler, "must answer some deep-seated need of our time...No one can push in ahead by sheer strength and skill and win the prize-a fortune or a dozen boxes of chocolates-which the majority won't get. But equally, no one will be quite left out-all will get their two ounces of jujubes* by mere waiting and shuffling along at intervals...
...vacuum left by the abandonment of religious ritual and social ceremony has been filled by a new rite-a worship of The Rules and the strange gods behind them. 'No, I'm afraid we're right out of those-we're waiting for our quota,' says the stationer, with a mixture of exasperation and reverence for the goddess Quota that was once accorded by anxious Greek farmers to Demeter, bringer of harvests. 'I'm full up now-only eight standing inside-I can't take any more,' chants the bus conductor...
...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...
...several scientific teams operated by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the men have been on Stonington since early 1947. Their supply ship, the John Biscoe, left them there-with 100 huskies and a three-year food supply-for a two-year stint of charting unmapped icebound wastes and making geological, meteorological and cold-weather tests...
...note: "A monumental piece of imbecility and iniquity...We are going to celebrate 50 years of the most abominable misgovernment by having an exhibition and festival at the expense of U.S. money...We are broke-underline that three times. The country has gone potty. We have no moral sense left. I haven't much myself...