Word: toits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toit, Terre, Travail. The D.P.s came to them from as far away as Siberia-a Czech who once taught Latin, an elderly seamstress, a family who lived 14 years in refugee camps. But for Pire. they were never "beggars living off our crumbs." They got "toit, terre, travail" (roof, land, work): "We help them, but only halfway, the other half coming from them." He thought it essential for women to find pride in keeping a clean house with curtains at the windows, and men in earning their own wages, before the "weight of the odor and the noise...