Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controls." Under the French contrat de programme, for example, thousands of industrial and retail firms have signed agreements not to boost prices beyond the government-specified 3%. Even so, some price gains have already overtaken the wage increases. The cost of draft beer has risen 10% in Paris, a loaf of bread now costs 120 instead of 100 (a 20% jump), and many restaurants have increased the price of a $1.40 meal to $1.80 (a 29% rise...
After this version was published in England last fall (TIME, Nov. 3), Graves was attacked not only for trying to break the spell of the famed passages ("A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves...
Scope & Symptoms. Foreign observers of U.S. urban riots are frequently stunned at the vigor of the American poor. How, they wonder, can a looter claim to be hungry and oppressed, yet walk off with a color-television set as easily as if he were hefting a loaf of bread...
...well-researched solution is to let delinquent boys loaf completely-or choose to work and study for "points" that pay off at a penny apiece. Earnings can hit $40 a week, cutting confinement time in the process...
Daily Journal. Those who stuck it out had little time to loaf. Although the reading list was relatively light, each work was arduously aired at twice-weekly lectures attended by the entire staff and student body. Students voiced their own views at weekly seminars-one guided by a professor, one by a student chairman. All had to complete a paper every two weeks on their latest study, go over it in private tutorials with a professor, also keep a running daily journal of their personal reaction to their studies. The faculty worked just as hard: it met before each lecture...