Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kyle Rote ('51), is shepherded with anxious concern by a coaching staff that knows that S.M.U., with not much of a ground offensive, is heavily dependent on his bullwhip right arm. The coaches have still not recovered from the shock of learning that Meredith risked their livelihood by repeatedly falling off a motor scooter while navigating the winding roads of Majorca last summer. Cracks one coach: "If something happens to Meredith, we'll have to resort to the confused T with the unbalanced coach in motion...
...Calcutta's exotic Places of the Golden Trees, where the girls regale their more cultivated clients with recitations from Bengali poets, business seemed to be going on pretty much as usual. But one Allahabad prostitute, more militant, went to court, arguing that, by depriving her of her livelihood, the new law "frustrated the very purpose of the welfare state...
...result of the dubious publicity accorded HSA during the past several weeks, a distinct prejudice has evidently developed in the community against any student enterprise. As the manager of an independent student operation, whose livelihood depends on the goodwill of this community, I am necessarily concerned...
...Damien's famed settlement for leprosy patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokai is being opened to tourists. From a peak of 1,180 active cases in 1890, the settlement today has only 75. Since some 150 recovered patients prefer to remain, officials hope to give them a livelihood as guides and taxi drivers by encouraging outside visitors...
...read, with repugnance, the March 10 account of the Italian couple who were declared "public sinners" and, in effect, were deprived of their economic livelihood by their Catholic bishop because they contracted a civil marriage. I do not believe the founder of Christianity established any church for this purpose (slander and coercion...