Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Especially the U.S." On the eve of flying to London for this week's meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Diefenbaker declared: "It will be my privilege to tell them that we want to continue to stand together as a family, for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse, in good times or in bad times, in success or in adversity, by God's grace, in friendship and in harmony with all the world, and especially the United States of America...
...approval of his own deeply divided Radical Socialist Party, among whom are such antagonists as Pierre Mendes-France and such influential though relatively unknown anti-Europeans as diminutive Newspaper Owner Jean Baylet, whose Dépéche du Midi circulates its narrow message throughout France's poorer South. Radicals questioned Bourges sharply about his plans, finally voted 44 to 10 that he take his first step. Muttered a Radical Deputy: "That doesn't mean we've approved him yet as Premier...
...sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there is-in perhaps the most haunting portrait of all-modest, bewildered Tenzing Norkay, conqueror of Mount Everest, now half-man and half-God by Asian standards. In his Darjeeling home, he is badgered by reporters, featherbedded with relatives, envied and slandered by the poorer fellow Sherpas. Says he: "I thought if I climbed Everest whole world very good. I never thought like this...
...poorer. . . . Read in the records, from earliest...
Western miners can never forget the golden 18905, when high-grade, low-cost ores made everyone richer every day in every way. Today the situation is almost exactly reversed. As against cheaper foreign production of richer ores. U.S. veins are becoming poorer while labor costs have soared to an average $18 a day. Last week, when Eagle-Picher Co. closed its zinc operations in Oklahoma and neighboring states, domestic miners chalked up another example of their deepening trouble. Other trouble spots...