Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Local Affairs Committee also amended the bill introduced last session to include only those people too poor to purchase the condominium unit...
Asked why she would spend so much money on music in such a poor nation, Mother Anne Marie replied: "We must feed the soul as well as the body...
...would not have been offered so much as a stale kipper at the Express office, he is such a phony old humbug." Maureen Bingham, who spent 30 months in prison for violating the Official Secrets Act, charged, "It is one law for the rich and one law for the poor...
...Treasure (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $7.95), Shulevitz speaks in his own voice to tell the story of old Isaac who dreams of a treasure far away, near the royal residence. The poor man has no ambition to play the palace, but his hunger for riches leads him on, only to prove that travel is narrowing and that no one can become truly rich until he looks into his hearth and soul. The back-in-your-own-backyard conclusion is timeworn, but the book's slow cadences and sprightly tones lend it the character of a legend that can never grow...
...department's isolation from the mainstream of Harvard intellectual life and its poor relations with the rest of the University community...