Word: subsistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years before his death in 1957 at the age of 86, Kupka was able to subsist on the sales of his work...
...being called the "Fourth World": countries with burgeoning populations, few natural resources and an undeveloped industrial base. According to World Bank President Robert McNamara, who will issue a grim survey of the world economy this week, there are some 900 million people in this Fourth World who subsist on incomes of less than $75 a year. "They are the absolute poor," said McNamara, "living in situations so deprived as to be below any rational definition of human decency...
...been accomplished so deftly, however, that the Queen appears to look up sharply as Steiger and Hollis of the Yard (Richard Johnson) struggle off to her left. Now, times are hard, and there is continuing debate over whether the royal family requires a larger allowance on which to subsist. So that audiences will be certain that the Queen has not turned to trouping to supplement her $3 million per annum state allowance, Hennessy is required to begin with a title -almost like a proclamation-assuring all that "the royal family took no part in the making of this film...
Hugh Sidey's comments concerning the week's activities at the White House [March 3] sickened me. Does Mr. Sidey suggest that the President, Senators, Congressmen, economists, et al., subsist on tuna casserole until solutions to the nation's economic ills are found...
...coined by a Glasgow sanitary engineer in 1905. The author's words and pictures also jolt the modern reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and even home cooking. Writes Bettmann of that time: "The masses were forced to subsist on a crude and scanty diet of which tea and bread were staples, supplemented now and then by soup or stew of questionable origin...