Word: pension
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barth was brought before a Nazi court, found guilty of "seducing the minds" of German students. For his defense. Earth pulled a copy of Plato's Apology from his pocket, read Socrates' argument to the court of Athens that he should be given a pension for his services to the city's youth rather than be condemned to death. Something like that, Barth suggested, ought to be done for him. "It seemed like a good idea before going into court," he says sadly, "but it made no impression on the judges...
Punctuation & Perseverance. Martin was discharged as a sergeant, settled in Prospect, Me., eked out support for a large family as a part-time laborer and town clerk. But despite intelligence, energy and irrepressible good nature, he made a poor adjustment to civilian life. Without a veteran's pension of $96 a year, he would have starved. Martin was 70 when he wrote his memoirs, but the little volume, bound between two boards with a calf-leather spine, won its author no fame. The current printing, the first in 132 years, is ably annotated by Scholar and Editor George...
...know what these people are going to do." said Pedro López, a cigar union official. Looking around a large, pungent room full of hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco through anyway, they should for get the whole embargo...
...Museum with chambermaids. Both La Torre and the Duchi d'Aosta are moderately priced inns; their sister hotel at Sestriere, the Principi di Piemonte, ranks high in Europe's catégorie luxe, is decorated with expensive taste and has rates to match: $22 per day, full pension...
Some of its little, rough-hewn houses date back to the 16th century; its oldest hotel, the Monte Rosa, was opened in 1838, is a triumph of Gemütlichkeit at $8 a day; full pension, in high season. But like many another old resort, it is caught up in the new boom; in the past five years, the amount of hotel space has doubled, so that now the village can take care of 12,000 winter vacationers at one time...