Word: pauperizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...income from oil and gas leases greatly reduced by the petroleum glut of the early '80s. Lansky died in 1983. If there were secret millions, they do not seem to have changed the lives of his family. After a life limited by cerebral palsy, elder son Buddy died a pauper...
...from a group of wealthy Los Angeles businessmen, and there appeared to be real danger that he would be dropped from the ticket. In his speech, he neglected to answer the charges directly, but informed a listening electorate, with quavering voice and moistened eye, that he was a virtual pauper, whose sole assets were a little dog named Checkers and his wife's cloth coat...
...rebuilding of postwar Germany into one of the world's most affluent nations," Dersh writes, "is a moral disgrace. A minimal appropriate response...should have been a generation of poverty." Dershowitz even fondly recalls Henry Morganthau's proposal to partition and deindustrialize Germany and turn it into a pauper nation...
This sequel to The Rescuers appears with a 23-min. version of The Prince and the Pauper. It stars Mickey Mouse in his first dual role, includes his entire stock company (right down to Horace Horsecollar) and is done in the classic Disney style of 50 years ago. Tradition and innovation, all on the same bill. Plus fun (and a few shivers) for the kids. What more...
Applied to my own life, their message seems clear. I am pretty much the same person I would have been had Harvard said yes -- or had Dartmouth written apologetically to say that the envelopes had been switched at birth and I was really a prince, not an educational pauper. Yet I wonder. My own sense is that those rejection letters changed me in ways that I am still hard-pressed to define. Total defeat is never easy, especially when it comes so suddenly so young. Sometimes I fear the experience eroded my self-confidence. But mostly I prefer to think...