Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion was passé, and the nation's chief barometer of values was the skyrocketing stockmarket...
...Long Live the King. There were few World War II veterans among the 3,400 delegates, fewer still among the 30,000 other Legionnaires who came along for the fun-although they outnumber World War I veterans two to one among the Legion's 3,000,000 members. In the battle to elect next year's commander, the old-guard "king makers" squelched a rebellion by the younger veterans, steamrolled serenely on to victory with stocky, bespectacled S. Perry Brown, 56, veteran of both wars and general manager of a Beaumont, Tex. building-materials company. It wasn...
...West since 1945. "The Party," said Pirogov, "does nothing to meet the needs and desires of the people." "And elections aren't free!" shouted Barsov, banging his fist on the table. "They must vote at the point of a gun . . . The army doesn't live badly, and especially the air corps; but the farmer who represents the majority of Russians lives so badly and is treated so badly it pained me, so I decided to leave...
...Behold, I am thy servant, prepared for all things; for I desire not to live unto myself, but unto thee; and O that I could do it worthily and perfectly...
...says Dr. Will sensibly, cannot save the world all by itself. He has no patent psychiatric pills for ending war, or meeting the threat of the atomic bomb-or even for getting children to stop biting their nails. But the world, he thinks, would be a better place to live in if people were healthier in their minds. Spreading the word.about psychiatry-to folks who need it, and to doctors who don't know much about it-is a job that Dr. Will finds well worth doing...