Word: rationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list: pledges not to accept bribes, obtain false ration cards, travel on trains without tickets, forge signatures, commit abortion or arson. The disciples also promised not to adulterate milk with water, or flour with powdered stone, and "not to tell a lie to marry off one's daughters . . . for example, not to tell about a blind girl that she has eyesight...
...Government-controlled, but distinguished from the ration-book stores, which sell at lower prices, in driblets...
Bananas & Beefsteak. As the cheers died away in Manhattan at the week's end, Anna's parents, who have been her only teachers, said they were determined to protect her youthful voice, carefully ration her performances despite the movie, recording and personal-appearance offers that 'were sure to roll...
...Service at Enfield, Middlesex) could not buy diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could do, she's in business...
...felt the pressure sooner than most because his six husky youngsters could eat their way through hi $240-a-month pay envelope quicker than a horde of grasshoppers could clean an alfalfa field. During the first month he had been forced to cut out the weekly ration of 28 quarts of milk, and cut down the weekly six dozen eggs. Later, Tom himself began eating breakfast and lunch regularly at Local 961's strike kitchen, then tried to go easy when he sat down with the family to their meatless dinners...