Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dillon's plan would still let business spend what it has to in order to get business, but without being able to claim as much tax credit. His Spartan suggestions, however, did not appeal much to businessmen-despite the fact that he added that the Kennedy Administration hopes to present to Congress next year a program of income tax relief for individuals, including those in high tax brackets. Snorted Judson Sayre, chairman of the Norge Division of Borg-Warner: "You can't run businessmen like the Army. How can you put executives on per diem...
...narrow eye for each man's just portion and place at table. This apparently simple world was ruled by a supernatural order; divine justice, immediate and dramatic, awaited "those who would not think straight nor behave." Odysseus himself never failed to pay his sacrificial obligations to Zeus. The Spartan simplicity of what today might be called the economic base of Greek society was enriched by a complex and rich theological system...
...gonna be spectators, then let's get up in the stands where we belong." For Temple and his girls, the path to the 1960 Olympics has been paved with hard work and Spartan self-denial. Himself a Tennessee State sprinter until he hurt his leg, Temple took over as women's track coach after earning his master's degree in 1953 and set out to make it one of the college's top teams. He scoured the South for promising sprinters, labored successfully to increase his allotment of athletic scholarships from two to ten. A mark...
...scarlet robes of high bailiff, or mayor, when Will was four. The boy presumably went to Stratford's King's School -no doubt unwillingly, since the schools of the day consisted of Latin drill, long hours (7 a.m. to 5 p.m., often longer in summer), and Spartan discipline...
...grinding poverty they worked hard physically, grew up lean and tough on a Spartan diet packed with starches-black bread (using 85% of the wheat grain), white and sweet potatoes, rice-as well as peppers, onions, tomatoes, peanuts, oranges, sesame seeds and abundant raw carrots. A minimum of food was cooked...