Word: live
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against a Tuskegee Negro boycott of downtown stores and against Montgomery Negroes when they boycotted city buses. On that basis, Patterson was elected Governor. But by last week, John Patterson had discovered to his embarrassment that the irresponsible promise held out during a campaign is not so easy to live up to while holding responsible office...
...Squeezing through a split in the Liberals, Ponce won only 29% of the vote, topped his nearest Liberal opponent by only .5%, nevertheless was confirmed, and has held on with only a few uprisings, so mild as to be almost unnoticeable. After 150 years, Ecuador has learned how to live with freedom...
WHEN Rockefeller turns a profit, he gives most of it to some 200 charities. But he likes to live well. He collects paintings (about 100 by Gainsborough, Bonnard, Vlaminck, etc.), houses (a Fifth Avenue duplex, an estate on the Hudson, a 15-room summer home on Fishers Island-a millionaire's retreat 135 miles from New York), cars (a Bentley, a Cadillac, four others). He loves speed, often commutes in his fast 65-ft. aluminum P-T boat to his office in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise...
...story, a young Communist was puzzling about one of Stalin's famous slogans and asked: "Tell me, Comrade Rabbi, can you build 'socialism in one country'?" The rabbi thought deeply. "Yes," he replied finally. "You can build socialism in one country, but you have to live in another...
...live" was just about the only legacy a Jewish parent in Hitler's Europe could offer his daughter or son. To go alone into a world of tightening snares was a little easier for a handsome, Aryan-looking girl than for her brother, but to live she still needed her wits about her, day and night. The heroines of these two novels are both young Jewish girls trying to stay alive under Nazi rule during World War II. Apart from this common fate, they share several things- intelligence, a sharp instinct for survival, religious indifference, and a strong, hard...