Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about time we taught our children how to live. . . . A kid comes to school with a fresh, clean mind and an all-consuming desire to find out what life is all about. . . . [But we] accuse him of criminality for daring to be interested in some of the things which life is more about than anything else...
...that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept the [$3,750,000,000] loan. It made us live artificially, beyond our means, while you profited over there. Now we've got to begin fighting on our own feet." Nevertheless, among Europeans who have heard of the Marshall Plan at all,* a substantial majority, of course, endorse...
...France. Two pieces of testimony, from opposite poles of French life, show how relative the sense of ill-being can be. Said a not-too-clean salesgirl, in a slum grocery shop in Paris: "I get 9,000 francs [about $30] a month; not enough to live on and too much to die on. . . . I don't know about [political issues]. All I know is that I can't live on my salary and that prices have to go down...
...increase in room rent has forced three men to decide to live at home as the only solution to the searing cost of residence. Besides, they explain, "food has something to do with...
...never orthodox in either religion or politics. He was exiled to northern Russia when he was 25 for declaring that the church under the Czars was subservient to civil power. After the revolution, he was twice imprisoned and later exiled for criticizing Marxism. In 1923 he went to live in Paris, where he headed the Russian Y.M.C.A. press, edited his magazine, Put', and wrote at least 40 books...