Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roberts was blunt. "Can the present European Recovery Plan do other than place us in the poisonous rich-uncle, poor-relationship situation that has severed so many family ties?" Europe's democracies are proud. "They feel that they gave what they gave for the benefit of free men everywhere. Is it surprising they resent the role of begging from our nation...
...both the bishop and an unpleasant donor that the money could be more wisely used if it were spent to help the poor and the suffering. It then shows how Dudley saves the bishop's marriage from a sorry fate. And all the time, it maintains a nice comical relationship between Dudley, the bishop, and the bishop's wife...
...Dean Pound there gradually evolved a whole new concept of the law. Formerly, the law was treated as an isolated field of study. Dean Pound realized that this view left law out of touch with life, and hence he insisted that the law be taught in forms of its relationship with other fields of human endeavor. Thus the law must be thought of as a positive factor in the political and sociological structure of civilization...
Home to Roost. The relationship between Leventhal and Allbee takes on curious new dimensions. Though Leventhal, in his blundering way, seems dark, powerful and stern, he is a prey to suspicions and frights that are the counterparts of Allbee's. When Allbee, evicted from his furnished room, moves in to live with him, the intimation is hard to miss that Leventhal's alter ego, his subconscious share in the general ills and abandonments of humanity, has come home to roost...
Anger & Ambition. Three generations later, in 1923, the relationship between Kalyanu's grandson, Jodh Singh, and the new deputy commissioner, Hugh Upton, was more complicated. The district of Garhwal remained the same: the peasants tilled their terraced fields of millet on the mountainsides, drove their sheep and goats to the high, flowering pastures in the spring, sent their women out to gather sticks for the winter fires in the smoky stone huts. Jodh Singh, however, enjoyed the privileges won by his grandfather; he had been to Lucknow University, and he felt it his mission in life to fight...