Word: till
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They should have to pay all they're on a level with the poorest individual in town," Bergman said. "Till we have equality we don't have justice...
...women, the elderly and the very young, Americans and Vietnamese were thrown together with no privacy. Most preferred to be outside, chatting with friends, watching children play on the swings, or strolling among the huts. "I don't feel good about leaving Viet Nam," said Mrs. Gene Till, the pretty Vietnamese wife of an American computer programmer, "but now I am here, I feel good...
...know." (Pendergast was the boss of Democratic politics in Missouri for almost 30 years.) Truman's intentions, according to Mee, were to thwart the Russians in Europe by stalling off a German peace treaty and keeping the Soviet Union out of the Japanese war till the bomb could clinch it for the U.S. He largely accomplished both aims, but neither was much in keeping with the visions of postwar harmony that much of the Western world, at least, then entertained...
...reminds one of the days of England's great gin debauch in the early Industrial Revolution when modern methods of gin distilling were introduced and made it the preferred spirit of the working classes. For a couple of pence you got not only enough gin to knock you out till morning but a pallet of hay and a place to sleep on the barroom floor. It is said by reputable social historians that at any one time one third of the adult population of England was drunk. At the Agassiz, tonight, tomorrow and Saturday night at 8 p.m., as well...
...public offices, but always within a limited sphere of issues. Almost always they sit a Governing-Board-level and therefore for removed from the arena where the action is and where the ferment for change in our society manifests itself with a sense of urgency that seldom filters up till it erupts in bitter explosions...