Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson did not say that it would happen. He merely said that it may happen. The newspapers buried his words on an inside page. The Average Citizen, his breath dubious, dandruff scales on his shoulders, his feet hurting, his son in the Army, his paycheck riddled by taxes, charities and higher prices, his dinner cold and leftover because his wife was out British-Bundling or Red-Crossing, picked up his newspaper, mechanically noted that, as usual, things would soon be worse, and turned to the football scores...
...steady, pleasant, strongwilled, plodding, articulate. He lives simply, unconscious of money. Long ago he donated the gold from his teeth to China war funds. He still delivers his paycheck -unopened-to his 80-year-old mother. He denies his reputation for being able to drink like a Cossack, says he has been drunk only three times (once he drew a blank, once he dimly remembers he downed two quarts of whiskey on a train in Poland, once he got drunk to help survive a Chinese feast of 100 courses), and insists that he drinks only "to celebrate a past event...