Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich tend to get richer. In the $50,000-and-over income group, $80 out of every $ 100 of assets is busy making money, while families in the $5,000,810,000 range hold only $36 out of every $100 in income-producing assets...
...Morris may have to wait months along with the other claimants, before the courts decide who shall keep, who shall weep. At the moment, though, she is slightly richer from David's discovery. Mrs. Morris found a dime in the back of the police car that took her home after the cops had deposited the $21,259. They let her keep...
Away from the piano, her life is even richer. She is founder and proprietor of a foundation for the rehabilitation of down-and-out jazzmen, and she runs a Manhattan thrift shop for the foundation's benefit. Musicians who are doing well drop by with contributions nearly every day, and turning the merchandise into cash can sometimes tax even the devotion of Mary Lou. Only recently, Louis Armstrong's wife donated 100 pairs of size 41 shoes; the Duke donated a hand-painted pool stick and a mink...
Wrote Johnson in a "Dear Arthur" note: "I know that the academic world will be the richer for your return." The return will be delayed, however, while Schlesinger writes a "rather personal, rather informal" account of Kennedy's years as President. Sorensen also plans to write a book on Kennedy, but the two should not conflict. Sorensen's volume will deal with the broader aspects of Kennedy's Washington career, beginning with his election to the Senate...
Feudal Chaos. The feudal chaos of special privileges is compounded by the fact that once most priests are installed in their parishes, they possess them for life as "parson's freeholds," and they cannot be budged except for heresy, grave crime or the promise of richer livings. As a result, about one-fifth of England's clergy gloom about in ghost parishes with a handful of communicants and faintly Trollopean titles. Another fifth can barely keep up with the man-killing spiritual work of fast-growing suburban parishes...