Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-aged shutin should first discard the summer reading list. He would never get around to all those titles anyway. Besides, as the old adage has it, a man who reads to improve himself is probably beyond hope of improvement. The catch-up reader should then resolve to shun all the authors he feels obliged to read. If his conscience impels him toward Marlowe, he should settle for Harlow; if his secret ambition is to get through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost...
...labor. He respects economic science and medicine. He is preparing the nation for the new world of peace, science and trade, where there will be no poverty but educated masses equipped to cope with our problems through training and sacrifice. Finally, what other leader would have the courage to discard the white tie and the morning coat...
Although Freyre claims natives were free to accept or discard Portuguese culture at will as it was presented to them, this was not, in fact, the case. The Portuguese conquerors subdued them with the sword, baptized them by force and divided them up among themselves as slaves. Intermarriage occurred because the conquerors brought no women with them. It is essential to realize that "Lusotropicalism" did not accept intermarriage between Portuguese women and Indians...
...changes in the quantity of U.S. personal income but also by changes in the quality of U.S. living. One major factor is that the U.S. is a nation of increasing mobility; this year 9,500,000 American families will move to different homes, and most of them will discard at least some of their old furniture, buy pieces better suited to their new surroundings...
...deadlocked little guerrilla war. He knew that back home there was a growing conviction among many Americans that 1) the Vietnamese alone probably could not win the war no matter how much money and weaponry they were given, 2) the U.S. should ship more troops to South Viet Nam, discard its "adviser" role and forcefully engage in the fighting, 3) the war must be vigorously carried to North Viet Nam if necessary...