Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bermuda comes to wave the Union Jack at us, but even that is little more than a symbol of has-beens and a voice from the past. For good or ill, Bermuda's face is turned westward. To America she looks for protection, to her tourists for her livelihood." New British immigrants (Noel Coward, for instance) are likely to be greeted as nothing but tax dodgers. The phrase "Limey, go home" is not a slur, of course, but "the voice of destiny...
...many of South Korea's poor, stealing from the U.S. Army is a trade and a livelihood. They steal from PXs and officers' homes, raid railroad yards, pilfer from trucks on the move, and diligently bleed oil pipelines (last year's losses were 1,500,000 gallons, enough to carry one tank company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling...
Witness Weeks's theme was still protection, but protection of another kind. "I am here," he said, "to urge legislation to make jobs and protect jobs-the jobs of the more than 4½ million Americans whose livelihood is provided by world trade...
...months since the Diet passed Japan's first law banning prostitution, the brothelkeepers, banded into an organization called the National Venereal Diseases Prevention Autonomy Association (Zensei), have waged a stout battle to preserve their livelihood. Zensei directors called on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, persuaded the government to postpone enforcement of the law until April 1958. Zensei spoke with the air of an organization representing men of stature in the community. Some of its 35,000 members serve in provincial and municipal assemblies; others are directors of loan associations, better business bureaus, even P.T.A.s. A Zensei-sponsored petition protesting...
...dealers, whose livelihood can rest on their ability to size up a new client, his tastes and bank roll, Niarchos has proved to be one of the most enigmatic figures in the art world. Says one of London's leading dealers, "We all know of Niarchos; one or two of us have seen him now and then. We all agree that he is one of the world's more important collectors. But he's shadowy and aloof in the gallery realm. He remains behind the scenes...