Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical dispensary. That sort of request, said Muggeridge, "raised in me not so much disapproval as contempt," and he resigned his post forthwith. "How sad, how macabre and funny it is," said Muggeridge, "that all they put forward should be a demand for pot and pills, the resort of any old slobbering debauchee anywhere...
...resort spot built by the French and still appreciated...
...there is a basic difference between the money that a country spends domestically, and the money that it spends abroad. When a country runs a deficit abroad, it usually must settle up quickly or else foreign creditors cut it off. When that happens, the debtor country often has to resort to deflation, cutting back on jobs and incomes to reduce demand and imports. In sum, a debtor nation tends to lose some of its sovereignty and freedom of action. No U.S. leader wants that to happen here, but then, none can deny that the U.S. position is precarious and that...
Another experience, in West Virginia, was of a different nature. At a resort a young girl named Donna asked me to read her fortune. Her face in no way revealed her distress, but through her palm and in talking to her I learned that by age 15 she had already made five suicide attempts and was desperate for help and advice. We talked for over four hours, and I honestly doubt now that there will ever be a sixth attempt. In any event she decided to obtain psychiatric help. I am not trying to credit myself with a miraculous cure...
...users may not be driven to its repeated use by a physical craving, but they may come to resort to it habitually in order to compensate for real or imagined inadequacies or to avoid real or imagined problems. This pernicious and insidious form of addiction is sometimes the first step in the direction of the more potent or physically addictive drugs. Its use is not so much a symbol of dissent in order to effectuate changes in our social system, but rather a manifestation of a selfish withdrawal from society...