Word: loafered
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...make them take the momentous step he was asking them to take. But once that result is achieved, for God's sake stop talking about checking Russia, and talk about rehabilitating Greece and giving every Greek a fair chance. If you don't do this, every loafer and crook in Greece will consider himself the ally of the American General Staff-to be fed and kept in style by. the American taxpayer. . . . See to it that the money is used for the reconstruction of [Greece] and does not get into the hands of the Athens maffia...
...save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while it's there...
...fetid dwellings whose floors were littered with "sucklings bedded on rags and tatters" tottered howling greybeards, goats, whores, filthy children, "quadrupeds bleating . . . bipeds screaming." The crowd surged against Virgil's litter, screaming insults. "When you've croaked you'll stink like any other! Litter loafer! Money-bags...
...Everywhere on stone walls and cliffsides appears the four-syllable slogan coined by the government's able chief, Mao Tze-tung: "Move your own hands!" Meaning: "He who does not work shall not eat." A Border Region epithet is the term erh-lu-tze - loafer (literally, "she-donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler approach...
...reformed loafer named Liu confessed that he had once been the district's champion erh-lü-tze. His wife & children left him for shame. Then reform seized him. Now he had ample livestock, 21 acres under cultivation. His family was home again. His village had elected him the local "hero of labor." Overwhelmed, the 63 erh-lü-tze hit the sawdust trail...