Word: livelihoods
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...Chinese custom of never praising oneself: "My election would symbolize the triumph of the common people." He boasted of his plebeian origin. As a farm boy he had tended water buffalo, plowed paddy fields, split kindling; so he understood the hardships of the peasants. "Without solving the peoples' livelihood," he declared, "all military ventures are doomed to failure." He urged "land to the tillers," an end to "bureaucratic capital," cleanup of corruption, more capable men in government, frank speaking to the Gimo...
...refutation of General Stilwell's record is emasculated in its own turn by the fact that . . . [he] presently makes a very handsome living from the operation of an airline which lifts relief supplies for the Chinese government. It is not likely that he would jeopardize his livelihood by voicing anything but fulsome praise for Chiang...
...seeks to make the schools of Massachusetts another arena of semi-hysterical witch-hunting, in which say teacher who dares hold an idea of Americanism different from that of Mr. Barnes may be legally deprived of his livelihood...
...Texas navy, only to be brought home again. His father a West Point graduate and onetime governor of Indiana, said to him: "I am sorry, disappointed, mortified; so, without shutting the door upon you, I am resolved that from today you must go out and earn your own livelihood. I shall watch your course hopefully...
...when the war ended the jobs ended; with living costs mounting, all but a handful trickled back to the reservation. The Government, which had all but destroyed the Navajos' means of livelihood, did nothing to help them find new ways of making a living...