Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who now say they want to go will never leave. They will go on, as now, behaving on the job as if "there's no future in it"; they have given up hope of making for themselves in Britain the kind of life they want. In short, the main limiting factor on opportunity in Britain's welfare state is that so many of its people believe there is no real opportunity. The debilitating mood of the psychological emigrant pervades the country...
...will be close to balancing consumption and refining capacity for the first time in its history. Petrobrás, however, is not yet out of the woods. Domestic production of crude oil is an embarrassingly low 25,000 bbl. a day-and exploration and development work still fall far short of meeting the country's needs...
...hospitals have the latest equipment, is always on hand for the annual Fondren Lectures at S.M.U. Says the Rev. Dawson Bryan, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Houston: "She attends more committee meetings than anyone I know. Why, it's only been a short time ago that she stopped going down to the church and helping out at functions. She used to roll up her sleeves, cook, wash dishes, do everything the other women...
Mildly Improper? Then there was that horrid word, underprivileged. "The Americans use it because of their fashion for using long words they don't understand and rejecting short words like poor, which they consider mildly improper." It was. in short, just one more example of American "pretentious illiteracy." Added Lord Conesford: "How would it have been if Sir Winston Churchill, instead of saying, 'Give us the tools and we will finish the job,' had said, 'Donate us the implements and we shall finalize the assignment...
Dedham tied the game in the second period, as Norm Wood, captain of the Harvard varsity sx in 1954, scored on a solo even though his team was one man short. Wood scored his second goal early in the third period on the same type of play, a solo drive with one man in the penalty box, to put the All-Stars ahead...