Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WISH TO VOICE OUR GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, SHOCK AND SURPRISE AT THE OUTRAGEOUS PIECE OF POOR-QUALITY REPORTING IN YOUR FEB. 15 ISSUE. IT IS NOT BEFITTING ONE OF THE GREATEST MAGAZINES OF OUR DAY. IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE THERE ARE SET AND KNOWN ETHICAL STANDARDS. THE PRESS HAS GREAT WEIGHT AND IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIVES, AND THEREFORE ITS COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS SHOULD BE NOBLER AND PROPORTIONATE TO THE GREAT RESPONSIBILITY IT CARRIES. TIME HAS AN EVEN HEAVIER ONE DUE TO THE POSITION IT OCCUPIES IN WORLD PUBLIC OPINION. IT SHOULD, IN MY VIEW, ABIDE BY THE HIGHEST DEGREE...
With all her campus activities, plus keeping house for her brothers, Pat still had energy left over to fill extra roles in motion pictures (she had a $25-a-day walk-on part in Becky Sharp) and to work as a part-time saleslady at Bullock's-Wilshire, a fashionable department store. She graduated with honors and a high school teacher's certificate. Finding a job was no problem: her first assignment, at $187 a month, was teaching commercial subjects at Whittier Union High School in the quiet, Quaker suburb of Whittier. Some of her colleagues foresaw trouble...
...minimum wage. We have more than 3,000,000 unemployed workers with jobless benefits averaging less than $31 a week." In Fresno, Humphrey took up the same theme: "We cannot, in good conscience, enjoy our prosperity when 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 of our fellow human beings walk the streets looking for work...
...stay. The father found work in the Delco division of the General Motors Corp. in Dayton, Ohio, and the family lodged in an industrial section of the town. There Jimmy Reston spent his youth, impressed by Mother Johanna's example of frugality ("She would walk an extra mile to a different grocery store to save 15?"). Johanna had great ambitions for her son. "Make something of yourself," she urged. "It's no sin to be poor, but it's a sin to remain in poverty...
...recluse. She is a theatergoer and relishes the Angry Young Men. Modern art, on the other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description of an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel, except that the family would be a shark...